The Wall

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The Wall

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ISBN: 9780811231947
author: Marlen Haushofer
translator: Shaun Whiteside
publishing house: New Directions
publication date: 2022 -6
binding: Paperback
price: USD 16.95
number of pages: 248

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Die Wand

Marlen Haushofer    translator: Shaun Whiteside

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A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is “as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe” (Doris Lessing)
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.

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