On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) - Softcover

Balle, Solvej

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811238393 ISBN 13: 9780811238397

Verlag: Norton & Company, 2025

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing" (The Washington Post) septology, Tara's November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that "it is autumn, but that we're not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn't mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see." Where Book I and II focused on a single woman's involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, Book III brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality. And then of course, what of Tara's husband Thomas, still sitting alone day after day, entirely unawares, in their house in Clarion-sous-Bois, waiting for his wife to return? Blending poetry and philosophical inquiry with rich reflections on our discombobulating times, Balle's On the Calculation of Volume asks us to consider: What is a single person's responsibility to humanity and to the preservation of this world?

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Solvej Balle, born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with the novel Lyrefugl, and went on to write the highly acclaimed According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind (praised by Publishers Weekly for its blend of "sly humor, bleak vision, and terrified sense of the absurd with a tacit intuition that the world has a meaning not yet fathomed"). She has also published a book on aesthetics, a political memoir, and two books of short prose. On the Calculation of Volume heralds the arrival of a major literary artist.

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"A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making, and a speculative masterwork" (New York Magazine), Balle's epic On the Calculation of Volume in Book III introduces new thrills to the adventures of Tara Selter's endless November day

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811238393
• ISBN 13: 9780811238397
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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