The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Paperback Book 9781784878030

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 survivalThis 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 ones name and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural worldPERFECT 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