On the calculation of volume II

Solvej Balle

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Tara Selter has slipped out of time. She has accumulated 365 November 18ths. It’s been a year without seasons. Time is broken: it no longer passes.Tara herself has been changed, but the loop of the days has left her without a future. A winter, a spring, a summer must come. Tara will have to make them herself.

ISBN: 9780571383405 Category:

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‘Fantastic.’ Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd
‘Miraculous.’ The Cut
‘Unforgettable.’ Hernan Dìaz
‘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.

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Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

180

Language

English

Edition

C format original

Dewey

839.8138 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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