The Wall (2019), a dystopian novel by John Lanchester, takes place on …

Andrew Billen. John Lanchester: The Wall. I'm actually surprised how few novels I've read, or read/heard about have made me think of Brexit and the referendum's fall-out. A highly acclaimed author and journalist, John Lanchester’s books include the novels The Debt to Pleasure, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, Capital and 2019’s The Wall as well as non-fiction works including Whoops!Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay and How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means. A climate-related catastrophe known as “the Change” has made these others cast …

Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. The Wall is John Lanchester’s fifth novel, and I would happily place three of the previous ones ([The Debt to Pleasure], [Fragrant Harbour], and [Capital]), all of which are completely different in style and content to each other, within my personal top fifty books. John Lanchester auf der Leipziger Buchmesse 2013 John Lanchester (* 25. John Lanchester geboren 1962 in Hamburg, wuchs im Fernen Osten auf und arbeitete in England als Lektor beim Verlag Penguin Books, ehe er Redakteur der »London Review of Books« wurde.

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If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. The synopsis suggests a country that is living with the mentality… It's about a broken world you will recognise as your own-and about what might be found when all is lost. A highly acclaimed author and journalist, John Lanchester’s books include the novels The Debt to Pleasure, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, Capital and 2019’s The Wall as well as non-fiction works including Whoops!Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay and How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means. The Wall moves beyond satire into full-on dystopia.