{"product_id":"on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-ii","title":"On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Haveland's translation captures the twitchy urge to both keep moving and seek the comforts of home. A speculative, lyrical study of our sensory self.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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. Amazingly, \u003cem\u003eOn the Calculation of Volume\u003c\/em\u003e Book II is all movement and motion--taking us through the European countries of the North and the South, through seasons, and languages--a beautiful travelogue that is also a love letter to our vanishing world. \u003cem\u003eTo be continued.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSolvej Balle\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl, and she went on to write one of the 1990s' most acclaimed works of Danish literature, According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind (praised by \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e 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\"). Since then, she's published a book on art theory, \u003cem\u003eDet umuliges kunst\u003c\/em\u003e, 2005, a political memoir \u003cem\u003eFrydendal og andre gidsler\u003c\/em\u003e, 2008, and two books of short prose \u003cem\u003eHvis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSå\u003c\/em\u003e, published simultaneously in 2013. \u003cem\u003eOn the Calculation of Volume\u003c\/em\u003e is Solvej Balle's major comeback, not just to Danish or Nordic fiction, but--expanding the possibilities of the novel--to all of world literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara J. Haveland\u003c\/strong\u003e (born 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 Høeg, Linn Ullmann and Carl Frode Tiller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solvej Balle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50816134840605,"sku":"9780811237277","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780811237277.jpg?v=1767895591","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-ii","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}