{"product_id":"9781784879976","title":"The Wall : Discover this addictive dystopia from the Vintage Earth series","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Haushofer, Marlen \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAustria\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 June 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 19 | 180g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003eA 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'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 Krauss, author of The History of LoveTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491322708354,"sku":"9781784879976","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781784879976.jpg?v=1753744106","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9781784879976","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}