On the Calculation of Volume IV

Tara Selter is one of many.





In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around the daily routines of practical chores: gathering provisions, splitting firewood. But one morning, there are five new arrivals at their wrought-iron gate.





As more people continue to arrive, their home fills with movement, voices fill the air; a flurry of people asking questions, sharing their eighteenths of November. Slowly, they settle into a new routine and Tara begins to breathe a little easier. Could they create a new world inside the eighteenth of November?



Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and Winner of the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, On the Calculation of Volume IV is the fourth volume of the poetic, page-turning European masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.





'Absolutely, absolutely incredible.' Karl Ove Knausgård

'A total explosion.' Nicole Krauss

'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz

'Breathtaking.' Chetna Maroo

'Brilliant.' Jon McGregor

'Absolutely marvellous.' Lauren Groff



Solvej Balle made her debut with Lyrebird and went on to write one of the '90s' most acclaimed works of Danish literature, According to the Law.On the Calculation of Volume is her return to literary stardom.





Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith's translations include My Work by Olga Ravn and There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen. In 2020 they won the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Translation Prize. Their translations have appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times and on stage.