"Few dates on the calendar get shorter shrift than poor old November 18. Bereft of major holidays, all but anonymous, and cold but not even cold enough to snow (at least in a lot of the U.S.) it makes a strong claim for the year's least notable day. So spare a bit of pity for Tara Selter. When readers first met the narrator of Danish author Solvej Balle's ongoing septology, On the Calculation of Volume, Tara was already on her 121st November 18 in a row."
"While six of the novels in Balle's seven-volume project have been published so far in the original Danish, this is the third to be translated into English, with the fourth expected in the spring. Don't be misled by the author's modest self-description "just another time-loop story" hers is an ambitious experiment nearly four decades in the making."
Tara Selter has relived November 18 hundreds — now more than 1,100 — times, trapped in a repeating-day condition that unfolds across a seven-volume septology. The narrative repurposes a familiar time-loop trope into a profound meditation on love, connectedness and the meaning of existence, shaped by nearly four decades of creative development. Several volumes have appeared in the original Danish and English translations are arriving, with the third translated volume now available and the fourth expected in spring. The release arrives amid other notable forthcoming literary titles, offering readers rich new options for close, estranged storytelling.
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