{"product_id":"the-wall","title":"The Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of survival\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlen Haushofer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54915979444611,"sku":"9781784878030","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2024-12-21T125351.577.png?v=1734785659","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-wall","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}