The Wall

by John Lanchester

Book Overview

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. Beset by cold,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324001631
• ISBN13: 9781324001638
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Very good writing.

A master stylist telling a story for our time. The notice in NYRB is what caught my interest and predicted liking this novel. By the end even the violence and suspense of which there is much gets a bit cliched but the story stays gripping and the imagination engaged.