The Children of the Dead

by Elfriede Jelinek

Book Overview

The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek--a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria

"The surface of Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek's novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, an enormous, spectral kaleidoscope...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300281943
• ISBN13: 9780300281941
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"