The Loft
$22.41
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post - containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress of sustained dread and author of the cult classic, The Wall.
An Austrian housewife sits in her loft, intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives in the post…
The loft is her retreat, a place she can draw undisturbed, hidden away even from her own family. But t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529953480 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529953480 |
| Author: | Marlen Haushofer, Amanda Prantera |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Her prose is a model of simplicity and concision; but the pictures which her sentences paint are enigmatic, overdetermined, elusive. We can claim her books for feminism, for eco-politics, for existentialism or psychoanalysis, or we can take them as thrillers or dreams * London Review of Books *It is the skilful juxtaposition of internal loneliness and isolation with…[a] mysterious, chilling past that brings such emotional power to this unusual book * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Austria in 1920. Following the Second World War, she worked in her husband’s dentistry practice. She began publishing short stories in magazines from 1946. She enjoyed success with her novella The Fifth Year, which was published in 1952, but her most enduring work was The Wall, first published in 1963 and now considered a classic of dystopian fiction. She died in 1970.
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