The Wall - Books Babb.no

Paperback, 238 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2022 by Norton & Company Limited, W. W..

ISBN:: 978-0-8112-3194-7

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.

Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian adventure, and a truly singular feminist classic.

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Jim Brown reviewed Die Wand by Marlen Haushofer

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."

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."