When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest 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.
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- Authors:
- Haushofer, Marlen
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781784878030
- Language:
- English
- Number of Pages:
- 256
- Publication Date:
- 07/07/2022
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Series:
- Vintage Earth
- Year Published:
- 2022
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Imprint:
- Vintage Classics
- SKU:
- 9781784878030