On the Calculation of Volume II: 'Impossible to put down.' Kate Briggs

Balle, Solvej (Author)/ Haveland, Barbara J. (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0571383408 / ISBN 13: 9780571383405

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2025

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208 pages. 5.24x0.79x8.43 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __0571383408

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Titel: On the Calculation of Volume II: 'Impossible...

Verlag: Faber & Faber

Erscheinungsdatum: 2025

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe:

'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgård
'Miraculous.' The Cut
'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz
'Wonderful.' K Patrick
'A total explosion: a new dimension.' Nicole Krauss

The second volume of the landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time.

I was sure that through careful listening you could solve any problem that might arise. If you really listened. The great questions in life. Everything.

Tara Selter is searching for a way back into time.

A year has passed, but Tara still wakes up to the same newspapers, and the same blank faces when she explains that she has seen this all before. Until one morning, she boards a train and finds herself in a new day. It is still the eighteenth of November, but the faces are different, the weather is colder.

She realises that she has found a way out of her endless autumn. By moving across Europe rather than through time, she can collect the ingredients for the seasons: the thin film of ice on puddles, the fresh spring breeze, the blazing summer sun. As she travels, she begins to hope for a new future, one that will run in parallel to the eighteenth of November, one that she must build for herself.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Solvej Balle was born in 1962 and made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl (Lyrebird.) She went on to write one of the 1990s' most acclaimed works of Danish literature, Ifølge loven (1993) ('According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind', translated by Barbara Haveland.) On Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle's return to literary stardom after nearly 30 years.

Barbara J. Haveland (b. 1951) is a Scottish literary translator, resident in Copenhagen. She translates fiction, poetry and drama from Danish and Norwegian to English. She has translated works by many leading Danish and Norwegian writers, both classic and contemporary, including Henrik Ibsen, Peter Hoeg, Linn Ullmann and Carl Frode Tiller.