{"product_id":"9781784879976","title":"The Wall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman''s weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is at once a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one''s name, and simultaneously a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat'' \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling.'' Nicole Krauss, author of \u003ci\u003eThe History of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48235804131563,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B03-04_SIMS","price":23.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781784879976-1.jpg?v=1783934332","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781784879976","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}