From the Bookshelf of Apocalypse Whenever…

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

Start date: December 21, 2023

Finish date: January 1, 2024

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Discussion leader: Gertie

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Nov 08, 2020 Cecily rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: unreliable-narrators, survivalist, landscape-location-protagonist, solitary-protagonist, scifi-future-speculative-fict, film-good-or-better-than-book, read-only-cos-of-gr-friends, self-improvement

The premise

This is the “report” of an unnamed, middle-aged widow, “clinging to the remnants of human routine”. In spring, 2.5 years earlier, she went with her cousin and cousin’s husband to their hunting lodge in the Austrian alps. One night, the cousin and husband went to a bar in the village, and she woke to find an invisible, impenetrable barrier a little way down the hill. There are no signs of human activity on the other side, and the only two people she can see are like statues, one drink ...more

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