The Wall
In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline--the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls trapped amid the rising seas outside. A blend of the most compelling issues of our time--climate change, increasing fear, widening divisions--The Wall is a suspenseful story of love, trust, and survival.
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John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, and Observer, among others. He has won the Whitbread and Hawthornden Awards, as well as being awarded the 2008 E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
A harrowing, brilliant, and troublingly plausible vision of the future.--Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
Gripping.... Few readers will stop until they reach its final page.--Alec Nevala-Lee
A powerful thought experiment.--Giles Harvey
An unsettling, compulsive and brilliant portrait of powerlessness.--John Day
Bold and confident fiction that highlights the current American and British issues of Trumpism and Brexit. It also examines the increasingly wide social and political divide of the young and the old.--Ant Jones
As in all good dystopian fiction, Lanchester shows us a world that could become a reality... [He] maintains measured, elegant prose-creating an assuredly human dystopian novel.--Lucas Wittmann
Highly relevant.--Ron Charles
