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(\"The shrubberies are dotted with crocuses, they don't care for crocuses.\") One day the mother feels a lump in her throat, and, as our young heroine reflects, \"nothing's the way it is.\" While the mother is in and out of the hospital, the daughter--barely sixteen and just starting high school--makes new friends (Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, and Desert Boots) and meets a few boys, but she remains essentially alone. In its splintering, multi-layered, perpetual present tense, where the borders of time seemingly expand, flatten, and dissolve, Helle finds an unexpectedly moving voice for her heroines' pain, one which rises almost wordlessly to the surface of the prose, to then reach across and profoundly touch the reader. 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Gorgeously rendered into English by the prize-winning translator Martin Aitken, \u003cem\u003ethey\u003c\/em\u003e is an exquisite small-town portrait--oblique, calibrated, and oddly affecting--of the love between a mother and daughter, of all its attendant longing, and the inevitable letting go.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0811239128\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780811239127\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Helle, Helle, Aitken, Martin, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2026)","offer_id":45658036109509,"sku":"9780811239127","price":22.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780811239127.jpg?v=1768897362"},{"product_id":"on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-i-shortlisted-for-the-2025-international-booker-prize","title":"On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/em\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTara Selter, the heroine of \u003cem\u003eOn the Calculation of Volume\u003c\/em\u003e, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: \"That's how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her flashbacks light up inside the text like old flash bulbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume's gravitational pull--a force inverse to its constriction--has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute. Give in to the book's logic (its minute movements, its thrilling shifts, its slant wit, its slowing of time) and its spell is utterly intoxicating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolvej Balle's seven-volume novel wrings enthralling and magical new dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal subjects. 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As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook II of Solvej Balle's astounding seven-part series \u003cem\u003eOn the Calculation of Volume\u003c\/em\u003e beautifully expands on the speculative premise of Book I, drawing us further into the maze of time, where space yawns open, as if suddenly gaining a new dimension, extending into ever more fined-grained textures. Within this new reality, our senses and the tactility of things grows heightened: sounds, smells, sights, objects come suddenly alive, as if the world had begun whispering to us in a new language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet as the world announces itself anew, Tara's own sense of self is eroding, making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact? \"It is the Tara Selter with hopes and dreams who has fallen out of the picture, been thrown off the world, run over the edge, been poured out, carried off down the stream of eighteenths of November, lost, evaporated, swept out to sea.\" She begins to think of herself as a relic of the past, as something or someone leftover, similar to the little Roman coin she carries around in her pocket, without a purpose or a place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperate to recover a sense of herself within time, Tara decides to head north by train in search of winter, but soon she turns south in pursuit of spring, as she tries to grasp on to durational time through seasonal variations. 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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 \u003cem\u003eBook I\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eII\u003c\/em\u003e focused on a single woman's involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, \u003cem\u003eBook III\u003c\/em\u003e 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? 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