The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, trans. Shaun Whiteside

Haushofer's 1963 dystopian classic, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside, about a woman left behind at a remote Austrian hunting lodge whose stay turns into a fight for survival when an invisible barrier traps her, civilisation apparently ending behind it.

A few reviews:

• 'One of the most beautiful and most harrowing books I’ve ever read, as well as one of the best' Susan Choi
• 'Every joint and sinew of the story is restless with a sense of threat' London Review of Books
• 'The Wall is a dystopian novel that gradually becomes a utopian one.' The New Yorker