Solvej Balle, Author, Barbara Haveland, Translator Harvill Press $16 (0p) ISBN 978-1-86046-129-3
The four interconnected stories in this startling collection by Danish writer Balle are parables about the search for certainty. Seeking the key to humanity's upright posture and locomotion, Nicholas S., a Canadian biochemist, examines the brain of...
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Solvej Balle, trans. from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3725-3
Balle (According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind) launches a speculative septology with this astounding chronicle of a rare book dealer’s struggle over the course of one year as she wakes up each morning only to repeat the same day. The trouble
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Solvej Balle, trans. from the Danish by Sophia Heri Smith and Jennifer Russell. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3839-7
In the ingenious third installment of Balle’s septology, Danish rare book dealer Tara Selter is still trapped in the 18th of November. However, she now finds that she’s not the only one stuck in time. At a lecture on Roman grain and rye in...
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Solvej Balle, trans. from the Danish by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3841-0
Balle picks up her remarkable seven-part saga of a woman caught in a time loop with this stimulating account of a commune of people who are similarly stuck reliving the same day. Narrator Tara Selter, a Cologne-based rare book dealer who began...
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