{"product_id":"the-wall-by-marlen-haushofer-9781784879976","title":"The Wall","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wall\u003c\/em\u003e is a cult classic, the ultimate work of sustained dread—a story of a woman trapped alone in the forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn, becoming a fight for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring her holiday in the Austrian mountains, a woman spends a few days with her cousin and his wife at their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, she sets off to look for them. Her journey, however, reaches a mysterious dead end when she discovers a transparent wall, behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind this wall, she begins the arduous work of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, hoping for a calf, counting matches, forgetting the taste of sugar, and the use of one's name. Simultaneously, it offers a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat.'\u003c\/em\u003e – London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling.'\u003c\/em\u003e – Nicole Krauss, author of \u003cem\u003eThe History of Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Shaun Whiteside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853353144556,"sku":"9781784879976","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/50d3dc920443b6e50eb7e17e0eb99931.jpg?v=1759260701","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-wall-by-marlen-haushofer-9781784879976","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}