{"product_id":"9781784879976","title":"The Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Haushofer, Marlen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAustria\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 05\/06\/2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003c\/p\u003e128 x 197 x 19mm | 182g\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETTA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the most beautiful and most harrowing books I’ve ever read, as well as one of the best' Susan Choi'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' London Review of Books'Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling.' Nicole KraussTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tales on Market Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491384623310,"sku":"9781784879976","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7727\/4318\/files\/9781784879976.jpg?v=1776348339","url":"https:\/\/top-hatandtales.co.uk\/products\/9781784879976","provider":"Top Hat \u0026 Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}