The Wall

Description

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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Marlen Haushofer,Shaun Whiteside (Translator),Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword by)
Published: 06/21/2022
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811231947
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.20″ W

About the Author
Louise-Bennett, Claire: – Claire Louise-Bennett is the author of Pond and Checkout 19.Haushofer, Marlen: – Marlen Haushofer (1920-1970) was an Austrian author of short stories, novels, radio plays, and children’s books. Her work has had a strong influence on many German-language writers, such as the Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek, who dedicated one of her plays to her. The relaunch of her classic The Wall–acclaimed “strange and wondrous” by James Wood in The New Yorker–was a major literary sensation.Whiteside, Shaun: – Shaun Whiteside is a translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature.