Die Wand
Die Wand (Eng. transl. The Wall) is an award-winning 1962 novel by Marlen Haushofer.
The novel centers on the story of a middle-aged woman staying at a friend's house in the country. One morning she wakes to discover that she is alone, and an invisible wall has descended around her valley; it appears that beyond the wall something terrible has happened. The story then follows her as she learns to survive, grow vegetables, help her cow, etc.
Die Wand in its English translation has been described by one English-language commentator as a feminist Robinson Crusoe.
See also Jean Hegland's Into the Forest (1996) for a work featuring two girls in a cabin in the woods in a post-apocalyptic northwest. See also Joan Slonczewski's The Wall Around Eden for a book in which aliens have walled a small human city as a preserve, after human nuclear war.
Editions
- 1962
- ? English translation The Wall