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Paperback. Condition: New. Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her son's gloomy demeanor and her daughter's obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.A domestic horror story that builds to an apocalyptic ending, KILLING STELLA distills many of the themes of Marlen Haushofer's acclaimed novel THE WALL into a claustrophobic, gothic, shattering novella.

Paperback. Condition: New. A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETTA 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 KraussTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This cult classic is the ultimate work of sustained dread - the story of a woman trapped alone in the forest.A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn - and becomes a fight for survival.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETTA 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 KraussTRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Wall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Claustrophobic and shattering, this is the story of one ordinary woman unable to save a teenager in her care. It is the story of Stella.Stella is a friend's nineteen-year-old daughter who has come to live with Anna and her family. Unloved and neglected, Stella's presence disturbs the already tense and tumultuous household. She lodges uncomfortably in their lives, whilst Anna struggles to bring warmth and welcome to the home. Her son continues to be gloomy and her daughter oblivious. Meanwhile Richard, Anna's adulterous husband, pretends not to notice Stella at all.Marlen Haushofer, author of The Wall, is the undisputed mistress of sustained dread and this gripping short novel deserves to be rediscovered.TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE'This potent 1958 novella from Austrian writer Haushofer takes the form of a mother's agitated confession. This one hits hard' Publisher's Weekly'Chillingly unillusioned. A fable about the habitual moral inertia of educated people' London Review of Books'Haushofer is a rather terrifying writer. Killing Stella limns a world of guilty secrets and repressions' New Yorker.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A short, claustrophobic, shattering novel about a woman unable to act to save a teenager in her care, by the mistress of sustained dread, Marlen Haushofer.Claustrophobic and shattering, this is the story of one ordinary woman unable to save a teenager in her care. It is the story of Stella.Stella is a friend's nineteen-year-old daughter who has come to live with Anna and her family. Unloved and neglected, Stella's presence disturbs the already tense and tumultuous household. She lodges uncomfortably in their lives, whilst Anna struggles to bring warmth and welcome to the home. Her son continues to be gloomy and her daughter oblivious. Meanwhile Richard, Anna's adulterous husband, pretends not to notice Stella at all.Marlen Haushofer, author of The Wall, is the undisputed mistress of sustained dread and this gripping short novel deserves to be rediscovered.TRANSLATED BY SHAUN WHITESIDE'This potent 1958 novella from Austrian writer Haushofer takes the form of a mother's agitated confession. This one hits hard' Publisher's Weekly'Chillingly unillusioned. A fable about the habitual moral inertia of educated people' London Review of Books'Haushofer is a rather terrifying writer. Killing Stella limns a world of guilty secrets and repressions' New Yorker Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friends daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her sons gloomy demeanor and her daughters obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.A domestic horror story that builds to an apocalyptic ending, KILLING STELLA distills many of the themes of Marlen Haushofers acclaimed novel THE WALL into a claustrophobic, gothic, shattering novella. Never before in English, a gripping, razor-sharp novella of a fractured marriage, by the ferociously talented author of THE WALL Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 204pp. Trade paperback, VG, owner name on inside front cover, no markings in text, bilingual, German and English, bibliography, notes, biographical essay, Moabit Sonnets,

Paperback. Condition: New. While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian adventure, and a truly singular feminist classic.

Paperback. Condition: New. Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their already tense and tumultuous household. Staring out the window at her garden, she worries about the baby bird in the linden tree, about her husband, Richard, who flits from one adulterous affair to another, about her son's gloomy demeanor and her daughter's obliviousness to everything, and, most of all, she worries about Stella, a confused teenager who has just met a sudden and disastrous end.A domestic horror story that builds to an apocalyptic ending, KILLING STELLA distills many of the themes of Marlen Haushofer's acclaimed novel THE WALL into a claustrophobic, gothic, shattering novella.

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