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.PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE YELLOW WALLPAPER,STATION ELEVEN AND THE MARTIANVINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism,a blast of fresh air,a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784878030Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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It's a novel that contrives to be,by turns, utopian and dystopian,an idyll and a nightmare... Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threatBrilliant in its sustainment of dread,in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling. Doris Lessing once remarked that only a woman could have written this novel,and it's true... I've read The Wall three times already and am nowhere near finishedIt makes you sick,because, if she wasn't a woman,everyone would be reading it,like Robinson CrusoeTotally grippingAn extraordinarily interesting writer,always underappreciated
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