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Title	:	The Wall
Author	:	Marlen Haushofer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	November 16th 1999 by Cleis Press (first published 1963)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 6212 Users | 673 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Die Wand
ISBN:	1573440949 (ISBN13: 9781573440943)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	"Cat", an unnamed woman, her dog, cow
Setting:	The Alps, Europe Austria

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Stunning. About isolation and relationships with animals... it's just incredible! One of my favorite books.

A woman visits an alpine hunting lodge with two relatives for a weekend getaway. She stays behind when her cousin accompanies her husband to the nearby village to buy supplies. The next morning the two still have not returned. The woman decides to walk to the village with her cousin's dog. She loses sight of the dog but when she finds him again, the dog is acting confused and will not start walking again. The woman knows the dog will follow so she continues....only to walk into an impenetrable

8.5/10Id spent most of my life struggling with daily human concerns. Now that I had barely anything left, I could sit in peace on the bench and watch the stars dancing against the black firmament. I had got as far from myself as it is possible for a human being to get and I realized this state couldn't last if I wanted to stay alive.Neither utopian or dystopian, this book defies its place in my reading universe: I don't know quite where to place it. In a sense, it is almost a Book of Hours --

I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.An unnamed woman arrives with her cousin and her husband to their alpine hunting lodge. Their staying is planned for a weekend. The same evening the couple go to the nearby village and when they dont return the next day our heroine sets off to meet them halfway to unexpectedly come across the impenetrable barrier. A wall. A transparent yet impassable wall through it she can see households in

Man cannot become an animal. He just passes the animal stage on his way to the abyss.Something Happens, and a middle-aged woman is suddenly, as far as she can tell, the last human being on Earth, waking up in a friend's hunting lodge up in the decidedly Julie Andrews-less Austrian alps, and finding an invisible wall all around the area she's in. (Insert space here for snarky comparisons to The Simpsons Movie or that Stephen King novel, even though The Wall predates them by 50 years and is a very

While reading, I kept wondering what was her point of living given that she is the last of her species. She could end it now and she could end it in twenty years, in grand scheme of things, wouldn't change much. Would it? Is it the ego that humans innately have being the intelligent species? Or is it wild hope that thrums through us all? Is it the sheer will to persevere and break down walls of isolation and impossible? Could it be the innate nature in humans that makes us learn, adapt, progress

I am going to be in the minority when it comes to reviewing this book. After reading the reviews and the synopsis on the back of the book, I thought I was in a for an I cant put this down kind of book. Instead I got a Wow, is this book ever going to end book.I love post-apocalyptic stories, which is why I was drawn to this one. Unfortunately what I got was a woman rambling on and on about the sameness of her life. In the story, the nameless character is somehow trapped in a rural area when an