The Wall
New Directions Publishing · Paperback · June 21, 2022
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A spare, unsettling read that rewards close attention and lingers after the last page.
- Genres
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Feminist Fiction
- Published
- New Directions Publishing, June 21, 2022
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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.
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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.
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A spare, unsettling read that rewards close attention and lingers after the last page.
Come here for
- layered survival isolation
- serious, book-club-ready classic
Expect
- slow-build tension
- big questions, few easy answers
Where it sits
| Feminist Fiction | 50% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 48% |
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
- Women's Fiction
- Nature Fiction
- Authors
- Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside, Claire Louise-Bennett
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Published
- June 21, 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic