The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

KristineKimmel

“This Austrian novel from the 60s is a slow-burn dystopian feminist tale in big nature and my top summer read!”

even*cleveland

“Overnight, the world changes, and a woman finds herself alone on a rural farm, with only a cat, a dog, and a cow for company. What does it take, and what does it mean, to survive? What remains when all old ties and habits go? When words themselves no longer matter? Because of how the story is structured, the reader starts at the end, with the narrator's memories and plainspoken acknowledgement tha”

Rachelle Rachelle

“A woman, alone in the woods, only animals and herself to take care of, and no one to observe her.”