The Piano Teacher

For thirty years, pianist Erika Kohut has struggled. Her relationship with music that drained her, her domineering mother whose hopes for a career never came true, her student at the conservatory where she works as a teacher—everything is permeated with violence and aggression. It turns out that love can take the form of cruel perversion, and refined musical culture can grow out of the same mental anomalies, manias, and phobias as the quiet obsession of the most ordinary, comfortable modern philistine society.

The novel "The Piano Teacher," which achieved sensational success in Europe and the USA, a landmark work of modern literature—now also in audio format.