On the Calculation of Volume I English 2024

WINNER OF THE 2022 NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE

Tara Selter has slipped out of time.

Her days no longer stack up into weeks, months or seasons. Instead, she is stuck in the 18th of November: the day repeats itself endlessly, engraining its ceaseless patterns and rhythms in Tara's mind.

She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday. Alone and isolated by the inexplicable loop she's found herself in, Tara can't shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there's a way to escape. As her 365th 18th of November approaches, she is determined to find it.

Enigmatic, hypnotic and utterly enthralling, On the Calculation of Volume Book I is the opening to an audacious seven-volume project from one of Europe's great literary minds.