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Mar 7, 2019 · John Lanchester's dystopian novel 'The Wall' posits a grim future for what might happen if the world continues as it is. ... As in all good dystopian fiction, Lanchester shows us a world that ...
- Lucas Wittmann
The Wall is an ambitious book, and thorough, even though it’s painting a broad dystopia. It’s about climate change, but it could be about the refugee crisis, Brexit or borders in America.
Jan 17, 2019 · Lanchester’s dystopian novel explores a world where sea levels have risen dramatically after ‘the Change’, land is scarce and in need of protection from ‘the Others’. Thus, the country (similar to the U.K.) has erected ‘the Wall’ and manned it with ‘Defenders’ to keep out water and unwelcome immigrants—a literal Brexit.
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Jan 11, 2019 · John Lanchester’s fifth novel is a speculative fantasy about a wall that is insistently, stubbornly real. The Wall is set in the near future, in a familiar version of Britain (people still eat ...
Jan 19, 2019 · Come on man, sharpen up! But he doesn't. He's a trusting soul, which is always a mistake in a dystopian novel. Fortunately he's a good swimmer. BBC/Kudos/Hal Shinnie. John Lanchester's novel ...
Enter John Lanchester, a first-class essayist and now five-time novelist who has written The Wall, a dystopian tale set in a Britain of the near-ish future. Suffice it to say, things have not gone ...
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Jan 12, 2021 · The Wall is a book squarely for our time: set a few minutes after a hypertrophied Brexit with an industrial dose of the nativism that is more familiar to American readers. The dystopian conceit is a zero say-do gap where policy is manifest in the most literal and stark proportions. It’s not a new trick, but in Lanchester’s hands, The Wall ...