A woman with a lurid past disguises herself as a nun, kidnaps a priest, and forces him to listen to the story of her erotic life, which, among other atrocities, includes a murder. The priest becomes aroused at her confessions, and must confront his own hidden desires.
Vienna Passion is a novel of love, mistresses and music. It tells the story of Rosa, a chambermaid, royal mistress and murderess, whose life mirrors all the sordid glamour of Vienna at the turn of the century. Rosa's story is interleaved with another woman's tentative romance: that of Magnolia, a young New Yorker, and her singing-teacher in Vienna ...
A collection of disturbing, poetic short stories, all dealing with relationships, from the author of "Magdalena the Sinner". Off-beat and unsettling, the stories reflect the author's quietly dissonant view of how the European middle classes live, love and transgress.
Magdalena Leitner is a woman in need of absolution, yet at heart unrepentent. On White Sunday, she kidnaps a priest at gunpoint, takes him to a remote forest clearing where she ties him to a tree and makes him hear her confession.
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