The Wall
by Marlen Haushofer
One day a woman wakes up
to find an invisible wall has cut her off from the rest of the world and
everyone and everything on the other side is dead. Now she has to find a way to go on with just
a few animals the only other living things left.
In the beginning this
book is interesting. One woman, whose name you never learn, is cut off
from the world by an invisible wall. She is the only one
left. Just her and a couple of animals. Everything
and everyone outside the wall is dead and lost to her. The
concept caught my attention. And the book did get me thinking about what
I would do if I found myself in her situation. I don't know how I would
handle being all alone in the world. Would I get up every morning?
Would I continue with the work that needed to be done? Would I keep
going, taking care of the animals and the crops? Or would I give
up? Would I go insane? I don't know. But watching our
narrator go through it makes me wonder. And it is interesting to watch
how she handles her new life: what becomes important to her, what she misses
most, what she thinks about when she isn't busy, what she finds to fill her
days. Unfortunately my interest waned long before the book was
over. There is only so long I can watch someone pick berries and plant
beans and milk cows before I don't care anymore.
The monotony of her life is part of the story I guess but reading
about monotony isn't fun. I was waiting for something to happen
but after the wall appears the whole book is her going on and on about hay and
potatoes.
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