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Book SynopsisAn
NPR "Favorite Books of the Year" and
Financial Times "Best Fiction of the Year" selection.
The best-selling author of
The Debt to Pleasure and
Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.
Trade Review"Lanchester’s novel…elegantly and chillingly imagines how current political attitudes might play out as the repercussions of climate change grow more severe." -- New York Times
"Gripping…Full of tense action and sudden reversals…Few readers will stop until they reach its final page." -- Alec Nevala-Lee - New York Times Book Review
"Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." -- Anna Mundow - Wall Street Journal
"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 - TIME
"[A] taut tale…It’s not clear what it will take to finally convince us that it’s time to panic about climate change, but works of fiction such as
The Wall have an important role to play." -- Stephen Dyson - Washington Post
"Bold and confident fiction that highlights the current American and British issues of Trumpism and Brexit. " -- Los Angeles Times
"A chilling reminder of the ease with which myopia can turn to dystopia." -- Michael Magras - Houston Chronicle
"Chillingly real." -- Boris Kachka - New York magazine
"An utterly persuasive story set in a dystopic future. Unputdownable. It's
1984 for our times." -- Michael Lewis
"In
The Wall, John Lanchester takes our current political climate to its terrible and logical extreme. A harrowing, brilliant, and troublingly plausible vision of the future." -- Emily St. John Mandel
"
The Wall is something new: almost an allegory, almost a dystopian-future warning, partly an elegant study of the nature of storytelling itself. I was hugely impressed by it." -- Philip Pullman
