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The Wall

By: Marlen Haushofer
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
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A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe (Doris Lessing)

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.

Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian adventure, and a truly singular feminist classic.

©1968, 1990 Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin; Shaun Whiteside (P)2023 New Directions Publishing Corp.
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"A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe." (Doris Lessing)

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A masterpiece. I’ll be thinking about this for years.

This is the rare kind of audiobook that makes me want to (1) track down everything else this author has written, and (2) track down everything else this narrator has narrated. There’s a Murakami-like dreaminess to the whole affair that I found hypnotic, and made me very glad I listened to it instead of read it, since I think reading it in print might have encouraged me to skim over some parts. I suspect you need to take in every word to make the ending really hit. Just a fascinating meditation on loneliness and determination. Don’t skip the afterword.

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