The Wall
Author(s): Marlen Haushofer; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
'The air trembled, gold and green and clear, at the edges of the forest'
A woman goes to the Austrian mountains to spend a few days in a hunting lodge with her cousin and his wife. When the couple fail to return from a walk, the woman tries to go into the village to look for them. Instead she comes across a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped behind the wall, a result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the arduous work of not only survival but self-renewal. The Wall is at once a simple document 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 meditation on our place in the natural world.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Directions Publishing
- : New Directions Publishing
- : 0.01
- : 31 May 2022
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 12.7 Centimeters X 20.3 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Marlen Haushofer; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 833/.914
- : 248