On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

Title: On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) Author: Solvej Balle ISBN: 9780811237253 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1618209 Publisher Description: Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, 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 c