banannie123 's review for:

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
5.0

“I could simply forget I was a woman. Sometimes I was a child in search of strawberries, or a young man sawing wood, or, if when sitting on the bench holding Pearl on my scrawny lap watching the setting sun, I was a very old, sexless creature. Today the peculiar charm that emanated from me back then has left me entirely. I am still scrawny but muscular, and my face is crisscrossed with tiny wrinkles. I’m not ugly but neither am I attractive, more like a tree than a person, a tough brown branch that needs its whole strength to survive.”