Wonderful, Wonderful Times

 

"A dozen years after the collapse of the Third Reich, four adolescents commit a gratuitously violent assault and robbery in a Viennese park. So begins Jelinek's brilliant new novel, an unrelenting and horrifying exploration of postwar Austria. Jelinek's prose is breathless and incisive as she paints psychological portraits of her characters in swift, sure brushstrokes." - Pubishers Weekly