The Wall by John Lanchester
Joseph, wake up, wake up, wake up. She says it over and over. It's her mantra, her prayer, her plea. But life doesn't stop while he's sleeping. With a newborn baby in her arms, Rosa's thrown into a new world, with new rules and a philosophy that sounds too good to be true. She's sure they didn't rescue her out of the goodness of their hearts. The Survivors must want something in return. The Wall finds Rosa eagerly entering a new life, yet struggling to keep the demons and ghosts of the past from dragging her backwards. She's left so many people behind. There's freedom in the Survivors' world, more than she'd ever dreamed of, but there's also secrets. The darkest of which pulls Rosa headfirst into a trauma, forcing her to reevaluate her past and pushing her to make a choice that threatens to destroy the tenuous, sewn-together family she's built on the outside.
"Lanchester’s novel…elegantly and chillingly imagines how current political attitudes might play out as the repercussions of climate change grow more severe" -- New York Times
"Gripping…Full of tense action and sudden reversals…Few readers will stop until they reach its final page." -- Alec Nevala-Lee - New York Times Book Review
"Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." -- Anna Mundow - Wall Street Journal
"As in all good dystopian fiction, Lanchester shows us a world that could become a reality…[He] maintains measured, elegant prose–creating an assuredly human dystopian novel." -- Lucas Wittmann - TIME
"[A] taut tale…It’s not clear what it will take to finally convince us that it’s time to panic about climate change, but works of fiction such as The Wall have an important role to play." -- Stephen Dyson - Washington Post
"Bold and confident fiction that highlights the current American and British issues of Trumpism and Brexit. " -- Los Angeles Times
"A chilling reminder of the ease with which myopia can turn to dystopia." -- Michael Magras - Houston Chronicle
"Chillingly real." -- Boris Kachka - New York magazine
"An utterly persuasive story set in a dystopic future. Unputdownable. It's 1984 for our times." -- Michael Lewis
"In The Wall, John Lanchester takes our current political climate to its terrible and logical extreme. A harrowing, brilliant, and troublingly plausible vision of the future." -- Emily St. John Mandel
"The Wall is something new: almost an allegory, almost a dystopian-future warning, partly an elegant study of the nature of storytelling itself. I was hugely impressed by it." -- Philip Pullman
"Gripping…Full of tense action and sudden reversals…Few readers will stop until they reach its final page." -- Alec Nevala-Lee - New York Times Book Review
"Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." -- Anna Mundow - Wall Street Journal
"As in all good dystopian fiction, Lanchester shows us a world that could become a reality…[He] maintains measured, elegant prose–creating an assuredly human dystopian novel." -- Lucas Wittmann - TIME
"[A] taut tale…It’s not clear what it will take to finally convince us that it’s time to panic about climate change, but works of fiction such as The Wall have an important role to play." -- Stephen Dyson - Washington Post
"Bold and confident fiction that highlights the current American and British issues of Trumpism and Brexit. " -- Los Angeles Times
"A chilling reminder of the ease with which myopia can turn to dystopia." -- Michael Magras - Houston Chronicle
"Chillingly real." -- Boris Kachka - New York magazine
"An utterly persuasive story set in a dystopic future. Unputdownable. It's 1984 for our times." -- Michael Lewis
"In The Wall, John Lanchester takes our current political climate to its terrible and logical extreme. A harrowing, brilliant, and troublingly plausible vision of the future." -- Emily St. John Mandel
"The Wall is something new: almost an allegory, almost a dystopian-future warning, partly an elegant study of the nature of storytelling itself. I was hugely impressed by it." -- Philip Pullman
John Lanchester is the author of five novels, including the best-selling The Debt to Pleasure and Capital. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the E. M. Forster Award, have been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781324001638 |
| ISBN 10 | 1324001631 |
| Title | The Wall |
| Author | John Lanchester |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2019-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Booker Prize 2019 |
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