{"product_id":"the-wall-vintage-earth-9781529977127b","title":"The Wall (Vintage Earth)","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOR FANS OF I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'One of the most beautiful and most harrowing books I’ve ever read, as well as one of the best' Susan Choi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824401846352,"sku":"9781529977127B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781529977127-l.jpg?v=1785896434","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-wall-vintage-earth-9781529977127b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}