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A woman goes to the Austrian mountains to spend a few days in a hunting lodge with her cousin and his wife. When the couple fail to return from a walk, the woman tries to go into the village to look for them. Instead she comes across a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped behind the wall, a result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the arduous work of not only survival but self-renewal. The Wall is at once a simple document 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 meditation on our place in the natural world.
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The Wall, Marlen Haushofer
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- The Wall
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marlen Haushofer
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1784878030
- ISBN13
- 9781784878030
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Friendship, German Literature, Gifts for men, Adapted for Film, Survival, Post-apocalyptic, Loneliness, Austrian Literature, Man and Animal
- First published
- 1963
- Original title
- Die Wand
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- A woman goes to the Austrian mountains to spend a few days in a hunting lodge with her cousin and his wife. When the couple fail to return from a walk, the woman tries to go into the village to look for them. Instead she comes across a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped behind the wall, a result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the arduous work of not only survival but self-renewal. The Wall is at once a simple document 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 meditation on our place in the natural world.