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The wall

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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.

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Series Title

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Call Number

823 HAU t

Publisher

United Kingdom : Vintage Books., 2022

Collation

246 p. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781784878030

Classification

800

Content Type

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Media Type

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Carrier Type

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Fiction
Feminism
Classics
Dystopia
Literary Fiction

Specific Detail Info

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Statement of Responsibility

Marlen Haushofer

Other Information

Level

High School

Book Segment

Select -- Reading for pleasure -- Program Reference

Reading Level

Independent

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