{"product_id":"on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-iii-9780811238397","title":"On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the marvelous third installment of Balle's \"astonishing\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e) 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 \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? Blending poetry and philosophical inquiry with rich reflections on our discombobulating times, Balle's \u003cem\u003eOn the Calculation of Volume\u003c\/em\u003e asks us to consider: What is a single person's responsibility to humanity and to the preservation of this world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBalle, Solvej:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussell:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSophia Hersi Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Russell\u003c\/strong\u003e are translators living in Copenhagen. Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, and Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51721024045330,"sku":"9780811238397","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aee4094a-0713-4fae-91b0-cd3312e087a6.jpg?v=1762947147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-iii-9780811238397","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}