On the Calculation of Volume V

Tara Selter wakes on the eighteenth of November and lives it again, as she has every time before. In this fifth volume of Solvej Balle's septology, the repeated day that once cut her off from the world starts to open outward. Her bonds with the people around her grow deeper, and a life beyond her husband, Thomas, comes unexpectedly into view.

Balle writes time loops without tricks or puzzles. She attends to the small facts of a day lived over and over, including the weather, the objects in a room and the quiet arithmetic of being alive. Readers who have followed Tara this far will find the story moving into warmer, more peopled territory. It suits anyone who likes their fiction patient, precise and quietly strange.