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The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

$16.95
SKU:
9780811231947
UPC:
9780811231947
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Published by:
New Directions
Translated by:
Shaun Whiteside
Pub date:
06/21/2022
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
248
ISBN:
9780811231947
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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.