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[quote=Anonymous]I just finished "The Wall" by Marlen Haushofer.
It was originally published in 1963 in Austria and I guess it was translated into English a few years ago.

It is about a middle aged woman who suddenly and accidentally becomes perhaps the last human on earth.

She goes off to spend the weekend with her cousin and the cousin's husband at their hunting lodge.  After dropping off groceries and supplies, the husband and wife decide to go into town for a drink.  They never return.  The next morning the woman decides to go into town to see what happened, and discovers that there is an invisible wall around the land where the hunting lodge is. She explores the boundaries of the wall and notices a neighbor on the other side of the wall who is like a statue. She has her cousin's dog with her. After a couple days a cow shows up, desperate to be milked.  A month later a cat shows up. There are plenty of deer to shoot for meat, and she grows potatoes and beans from the groceries they had brought.

I downloaded the book from the library overdrive web site.

I wanted to read this book for about a year. Ever since someone here on the DCUM book club site mentioned this book and described what it was about.  I finally got around to reading it.

I found it interesting.  Thought provoking. [/quote]

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