The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

€12.50
Zoom the image with the mouse

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

€12.50
ISBN:
9781784878030
Author:
Marlen Haushofer
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Publication Date:
2022
Format:
Paperback

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…

Adding to cart… The item has been added

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

€12.50
3 customers are viewing this product
  • Security Image 1
Description

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.

Bottom Banner