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The Wall

John Lanchester

254 pages

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An 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.

Themes
Dark & BroodingThought-ProvokingMysteriousGrimdarkThe fragility of civilizationThe dangers of divisionThe weight of historyThe illusion of safety
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