A review by eirwenroberts
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

4.0

I find books like this so fascinating. How does a book with such minimal plot keep you hooked? Although on the surface a book of a woman maintaining her animals and self, when you look deeply into its criticism of capitalism, the patriarchy and how bogged down we get in materialism. What struck me so much is our lack of ability to think freely, and that once pretty much everything is taken from us, we can see. Also, the intentionality of it being a man that destroys things - shock. Feel fantastically forward for a book written in 1963.