About this Event
Upper Street Bookshop's book club will be meeting to discuss The Wall by Marlen Haushofer: a groundbreaking and unsettling story of survival...
A 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.
This 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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Upper Street Bookshop, 42 Upper Street, London, United Kingdom
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