Book cover for Lust by Jelinek
1992 Released
208 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Serpent's TailISBN 9781852421830
Translated by Michael Hulse

In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices, nastily, briefly, brutally. The long-suffering and battered Gerti thinks she has found her saviour and love in Michael, a student who rescues her after a day of vigorous use by her husband. But Michael is on his way up the Austrian political ladder, and he is, after all, a man.

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Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.

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