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The Wall
Written by John Lanchester
- Longlisted
- The Booker Prize 2019
- Published by Faber & Faber
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John Lanchester’s thrilling and hypnotic work of fiction: a mystery story, a love story, a war story and a story about a voyage
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he’s lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he has only two years of this: 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; longs to be somewhere else. The Wall is about why the young are right to distrust the old. It’s about a broken world you will recognise as your own - and about what might be found when all is lost.
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