The Wall

One of the most beautiful and most harrowing books I’ve ever read, as well as one of the best -- Susan Choi
A brutal and absorbing dystopian novel... Haushofer’s book is one of the most profoundly feminist works of the past century * The Atlantic *
The Wall is an existentialist masterpiece that can offer profound consolation as well as the ultimate lesson in loss -- Michel Faber
Totally gripping -- Daniel Swift * Spectator, *Books of the Year* *
Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling. Doris Lessing once remarked that only a woman could have written this novel, and it's true... I've read The Wall three times already and am nowhere near finished -- Nicole Krauss
It's a novel that contrives to be, by turns, utopian and dystopian, an idyll and a nightmare... Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat * London Review of Books *
The Wall is a dystopian novel that gradually becomes a utopian one, as our narrator makes a new community... a feminist rewriting of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe * New Yorker *
It makes you sick, because, if she wasn't a woman, everyone would be reading it, like Robinson Crusoe -- Sheila Heti, author of 'Motherhood' and 'Pure Colour'
An extraordinarily interesting writer, always underappreciated -- Elfriede Jelinek
The Wall is a wonderful novel. It is not often that you can say only a woman could have written this book, but women in particular will understand the heroine's loving devotion to the details of making and keeping life, every day felt as a victory against everything that would like to undermine and destroy -- Doris Lessing