A spare and eerie — and eerily peaceful — Austrian novel from the 1960s about a woman who wakes one day to discover herself seemingly the last human alive on earth, encased within the bounds of a glasslike wall that has come down overnight to separate her from a suddenly deadened world. The Wall cycles with the seasons of the unnamed narrator’s first years in isolation, as she settles into the rhythms of survival and reckons with the unavoidable anguish of caring deeply for mortal creatures. It crushed me utterly.
-Aurora, Reference
