The Wall - Marlen Haushofer

Category: (Post)apocalyptic, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Dystopian German Literature Germany

Written by Marlen Haushofer
Read by Sally Scott
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Brought to you by Penguin.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT

The strange and suspenseful dystopian classic about an ordinary woman whose weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.

**FOR FANS OF I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN**

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.

TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 02-19-26