{"product_id":"on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-iv-9780811238410","title":"On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)","description":"We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle's riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal captives. In \u003cem\u003eBook III\u003c\/em\u003e we saw the addition of a handful of new characters to Tara's world--fellow travelers within November 18th--and now \u003cem\u003eBook IV\u003c\/em\u003e heralds the arrival of many others, and soon to be even more, roaming uncertainly through the same November day. Could this be the first stirrings of an alternate civilization? The big house in Bremen turns into the headquarters for this growing group of time-trapped individuals. But who are they and what has happened to them? Are they loopers, repeaters, or returners? A brilliant modern spin on the myth of Babel in the Book of Genesis, \u003cem\u003eBook IV\u003c\/em\u003e asks urgent questions, concerning the naming of things, of people, and of the functions of language itself-must a social movement have a common language in order to exist? Snatches of conversation, argument, and late-night chatter crowd onto the pages of Tara's notebooks. Amid the buzz and excitement of a new social order coming into being, \u003cem\u003eBook IV\u003c\/em\u003e ends with a sudden, unexpected, and tantalizing cliffhanger that no one--not even Tara, our steady cataloger and cartographer of the endless November day--could have foreseen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Solvej Balle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811238410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.\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.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Solvej Balle \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47858822447261,"sku":"9780811238410","price":29.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_001adf76-732a-4331-b00c-03d362c3c789.jpg?v=1776861095","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-iv-9780811238410","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}