Monthly Classics Book Club session at Books on the Hill to discuss Marlen Haushofer's dystopian novel 'The Wall', with tea and coffee included.
Books on the Hill hosts the next meeting of its Classics Book Club on Thursday 28 January, with Marlen Haushofer's The Wall as the book of the month. It's part of a monthly series the shop runs, where they work through 'the Classics' from recent and not-so-recent history, chosen to show how they speak to universal themes like love, loss, friendship and hope.
January's pick is Haushofer's ground-breaking dystopian novel. The story starts with a woman on a weekend away in the Austrian mountains, which takes an inexplicable and sinister turn: she's cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible barrier and left to fight for survival on her own. From there, it's a simple account of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf and of counting matches, but it doubles as a disturbing dissection of the place of human beings in the natural world.
The session is held in the shop's Reading Room, and since it's a book club, the whole point is to talk through the book with other readers rather than just listen to a lecture. It's suitable for ages 18 and over, and if you're the type who wants to stick with it, there's a year-long subscription to the club available.
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Books on the Hill is an independent bookshop on Holywell Hill that runs a regular programme of author events, book launches, signings and literary activities, so this is one of many things they have going on throughout the year. The meeting runs from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, and tickets start from £10, with tea and coffee included.
