Join as we celebrate Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, one of the most extraordinary and unsettling novels of recent years, which the Nordic Council Literature Prize Jury called “a masterpiece of its time”. In conversation with Adam Biles.

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Tara Selter has slipped out of time.

Every morning, she wakes up to the eighteenth of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the nineteenth of November, and she no longer remembers the seventeenth of November as if it were yesterday. She comes to know the shape of the day like the back of her hand - the grey morning light in her Paris hotel; the moment a blackbird breaks into song; her husband's surprise at seeing her return home unannounced. But for everyone around her, this day is lived for the first and only time. They do not remember the other eighteenths of November, and they do not believe her when she tries to explain.

As Tara approaches her 365th eighteenth of November, she can't shake the feeling that somewhere underneath the surface of this day, there's a way to escape.