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Loading... The wall (original 1962; edition 1990)by Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
Work detailsThe Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1962)
None.  kalafudra | Nov 22, 2012 |  Recommended to me in a conversation about post-apocalyptic literature written from a woman's POV. It's affecting and moving, in a moody Austrian way. A book to savor. (  ) Hookom | Feb 24, 2011 | You know those books that are so intense that when you finally sit back from them, you pause a bit, blink, and notice yourself breathing, slightly differently from normal? That's this one book 100%. I don't know what to say about this book beyond the description itself: "A woman wakes up one morning in a mountain hunting lodge and finds herself locked in by an invisible wall, beyond which life no longer exists." It's quite an affecting post-apocalyptic book, full of navel-gazing with a Little House on the Prairie tinge. It's deep. It's meaningful. It's rather depressing. I feel like I've overcome something massive just to have stayed with the heroine and made it through the book. I expect this one to stick with me. Recommended. (  )2  pammab | Dec 30, 2010 | Die Wand (The wall) captured me from the beginning. The book is well written (at least in German) to the point that the reader experiences the heroin's hopes and fears. The premise is creative, has a new twist to the "after" an apocalypse scenario. It is more than just a survival story. It is the story of a woman overcoming adversity. ( )1 ElizabethBraun | Nov 3, 2010 | Roman  joherrmann | Apr 2, 2010 |
 The Wall is a quiet book about domesticity, planting, beauty, the rhythms of keeping house, the land, human nature—and what a person can love in a people-less world. I consider it The Road’s antithesis. In contrast to McCarthy’s characters, who are toiling desperately for their survival in an ugly world, The Wall suggests our disappearance from the planet need not seem a tragedy.
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0939416549, Paperback)First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self-renewal. This novel is at once a simple and moving tale and a disturbing meditation on humanity.(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:38:00 -0400) "A middle-aged widow wakes up one day in her cousin's holiday home in the countryside and finds herself alone; her hosts have failed to return from an evening out in the nearby village. Perplexed, the woman investigates, accompanied by her hosts' dog, Luchs. The pair soon encounter an invisible wall, separating them from the world outside. Beyond the wall is a man, frozen mid-motion; all is still. The narrator quickly establishes the limits of her new, walled world, a sizeable area that is partially forested and occupied by a variety of animals." -- New Books in German.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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A woman travels to a hunting lodge with her cousin Luise and her cousin’s husband Hugo. They plan to spend a nice weekend there. But on the first evening, Luise and Hugo head into town. When they aren’t back the next day, the woman heads out to see where they have gotten to. But before she gets into town, she hits an invisible wall that seems to surround her. Seeing no life on the other side of the wall, she believes that it is the result of some chemical warfare and starts to wait for the victors to find her. As time passes and nobody shows up, she begins to make a life for herself, all alone at the cabin apart from a dog, a cat and a cow.
Die Wand is a very calm novel where nothing much happens. But nevertheless it draws you in and doesn’t let you go easily.
Read more on my blog: http://kalafudra.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/die-wand-the-wall-marlen-haushofer/ (