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The Wall: Discover this addictive dystopia from the Vintage Earth series

English

By (author): Marlen Haushofer

Translated by: Shaun Whiteside

When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 181g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jul 2022
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784878030

About Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer (Author) Marie Helene Haushofer was born in Frauenstein Austria in 1920. Following the Second World War she worked in her husband's dentistry practice. She began publishing short stories in magazines from 1946. She enjoyed success with her novella The Fifth Year which was published in 1952 but her most enduring work was The Wall first published in 1963 and now considered a classic of dystopian fiction. She died in 1970.Shaun Whiteside (Translator) Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from French German Italian and Dutch. His most recent translations from German include Aftermath by Harald Jähner To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann Swansong 1945 by Walter Kempowski Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein and The Broken House by Horst Krüger.

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