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Groundhog Day meets Samuel Beckett—cohosts Fionn and Kalpita celebrate this mind-bending Danish novel while we're on summer break. Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume follows Tara Selter, a woman trapped in a time loop, in a story has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Already awarded in Scandinavia and translated by Barbara Haveland, the novel is gaining global attention as part of a planned multi-volume series. Listen to the full episode to hear why this surreal, slow-burning story is making waves far beyond Denmark.

Full episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tm0KkpKbujAVVV61y9o1T?si=jG3M09hHQ8GpPzWt8GrIeg

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208511270-on-the-calculation-of-volume

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