A review by mcdavidson
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, Marlen Haushofer

3.75

a dystopian-survival story in which a mysterious wall kills everything outside it, and a lone woman and her animals try to survive within it. This was very bleak and very sad, and I was not expecting the amount of animal deaths (which is on me for not reading CW). I started to find this very repetitive and felt it dragged a bit through the middle. But I did enjoy the meditations on loneliness and finding beauty in nature and bonding with animals. The ending really upset me but it was fitting for the story.