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The Wall

By Marlen Haushofer

The Wall Contemporary literature

The Wall

By Marlen Haushofer

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A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival. A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival. This is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one's name, and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world. 'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' London Review of Books'Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling.' Nicole Krauss, author of The History of LoveTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2025-06-05
Publication Date:
2025-06-05
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784879975
ISBN13:
9781784879976
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
187 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
194 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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