The Wall

<p><b>A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><b>'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' <i>London Review of Books</i><br><br>'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 <i>The History of Love</i></b><br><br><b>TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE</b></p>