Paperback, 246 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2022 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-78487-803-0
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A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.

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surprisingly engrossing

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This book impressed me. 200+ pages (no chapter breaks) of a woman surviving on her own after a strange calamity. About 30 pages in, I wasn't sure I'd finish it, but soon after I couldn't put it down.

A blurb from Dorris Lessing on the back:

"The Wall is a wonderful novel. It is not often that you can say only a woman could have written this book, but women in particular will understand the heroine's loving devotion to the details of making and keeping life, every day felt as a victory against everything that would like to determine and destroy. It is as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe."