Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1081772 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Haunting
I read this book many years ago but it continues to haunt me. It's a very intense story of one woman trapped in a valley behind a wall of glass. There's some intimation that the rest of humanity has died, in some off-screen sci-fi scenario, but the focus is totally on the central character's life on her own. She interacts with the farmyard animals in her care, and these interactions, in the absence of other people, become incredibly intense (I remember especially the cow). Now and again she remembers her life before but it was fraught psychologically, and in a way, the woman is relieved now to be living a solitary life on her own with her animals, in nature.

It's a fascinating study. I read it in German and don't know the translation but the original language is very beautiful.