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"...Book IV 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...

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Main Author: Balle, Solvej, 1962- (Author)
Other Authors: Russell, Jennifer (Translator) (Translator), Smith, Sophia Hersi (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Danish
Published: New York : New Directions Publishing, [2026]
Series:New Directions paperbook.
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Summary:"...Book IV 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, Book IV 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, Book IV 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."--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:"Originally published by Pelagraf as Om undregning af rumfang IV"--Copyright page.
Physical Description:176 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9780811238410
0811238415
Author Notes:Solvej Balle, born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with the novel Lyrefugl, and went on to write the highly acclaimed According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind (forthcoming from ND). She has also published a book on aesthetics, a political memoir, and two books of short prose. On the Calculation of Volume heralds the arrival of a major literary artist: "A masterwork. In this extraordinary novel, as in our own shattered world, connection alone may be the one thing that endures." - Jacob Brogan, The Washington Post Sophia Hersi Smith is a translator living in Copenhagen. Together with Jennifer Russell, she has translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, Olga Ravn, and Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild. Jennifer Russell is a translator living in Copenhagen. Together with Sophia Hersi Smith, she has translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, Olga Ravn, and Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild.

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