The Wall
A Novel
Published on 25. April 2025
255 pages
978-1-324-00164-5 (ISBN)
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize "Thrilling...A topical and deftly satirical novel." -Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
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 the author of five novels, including
The Debt to Pleasure and
Capital. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and he is a regular contributor to
The New Yorker and the
New York Review of Books. He lives in London.
