Description: A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is "as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe" (Doris Lessing)
Brief description: Claire Louise-Bennett is the author of Pond and Checkout 19.
Review Quotes: Haushofer's sentences are simple and concise, and full of careful thought. The ideas she expresses are so important that you wonder how you have managed to get by without them. There is something fundamental about The Wall in particular that reaches far beyond the supposed territory of its story. The book is a lesson--and an agonizing one--on how one might come to live among things neglected with cost. That New Directions has recently reissued it with an elegant picture of a cow on the front should be a great event for everyone who cares about literature.--Missouri Williams "The Nation"