The Wall: A Novel: Lanchester, John: 9781324001638: Amazon.com: Books
WEBMar 5, 2019 · Until now I've been less impressed by Lanchester's fiction, but The Wall is a sturdy and disquieting dystopian novel that deserves a wide readership. It's an unpreachy parable and a post-apocalyptic coming-of-age story that gradually picks up speed and significance as it moves away from the wall.
The Wall by John Lanchester - Goodreads
WEBJan 17, 2019 · The Wall is set in a cli-fi dystopia that extends modern realities to an admittedly believable future – global warming has raised the ocean levels and scorched the lands of developing countries, desperate refugees risk their lives to reach safety, heartless nationalists erect a wall to protect what they have from the greedy hands of others ...
The Wall Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary
WEBJohn Lanchester’s The Wall (2019) is dystopian cli-fi (climate science fiction) novel set in a near-future in which severe weather events and rising sea levels destroyed all the shores in the world and created a refugee crisis in countries of the Global South.
The Wall by John Lanchester - Waterstones
WEBSep 5, 2019 · The dark heir of his state-of-the-nation novel Capital, The Wall is a Middle England dystopia for our fractured and uncertain times. A thrillingly apposite allegory of Broken Britain that asks key questions about the choice between personal freedom and national interest.
The Wall by John Lanchester — a brilliant dystopian portrait of Britain
WEBJan 11, 2019 · John Lanchester’s fifth novel is a speculative fantasy about a wall that is insistently, stubbornly real. The Wall is set in the near future, in a familiar version of Britain (people still...
The Wall - Harvard Review
WEBJan 12, 2021 · The Wall is a book squarely for our time: set a few minutes after a hypertrophied Brexit with an industrial dose of the nativism that is more familiar to American readers. The dystopian conceit is a zero say-do gap where policy is manifest in the most literal and stark proportions.
John Lanchester's 'The Wall' Is an Assuredly Human Dystopia - TIME
WEBMar 7, 2019 · As the story builds and Kavanagh is forced to confront betrayal and worse, Lanchester maintains measured, elegant prose–creating an assuredly human dystopian novel.
The Wall – A Novel: Amazon.co.uk: Lanchester, John: 9781324001638: Books
WEBJoseph 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.
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The Wall review: Riveting dystopian thriller – The Irish Times
WEBJan 19, 2019 · The Wall review: Riveting dystopian thriller. John Lanchester presents a world gripped by climate change where a wall keeps the wealthy safe and desperate migrants out. Expand. British...
John Lanchester on The Wall: 'What will the kids of the future …
WEBJan 18, 2019 · The Wall begins exactly as Lanchester dreamt, with a young man, Kavanagh, looking out to sea and standing guard. Read more: The Wall by John Lanchester, review – a dystopian drama for our...
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