The Wall av Marlen Haushofer

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<p><b>When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of survival </b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>**PERFECT FOR FANS OF <i>THE YELLOW WALLPAPER</i>, <i>STATION ELEVEN</i> AND <i>THE MARTIAN</i>**</b><br><br><b>VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relat