The strange and suspenseful dystopian classic about an ordinary woman whose weekend away in the
Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.
**FOR FANS OF I W HO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN** A 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.
This 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. 'One of the most
beautiful and most harrowing books I've ever read as well as one of the best' Susan Choi
'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' London Review of Books
'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 TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE VINTAGE
EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one
is a work of creative activism a blast of fresh air a seed from which change can grow. The
books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great
writing on the most urgent story of our times.
