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He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"on-the-calculation-of-volume-book-i-shortlisted-for-the-2025-international-booker-prize","title":"On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/em\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/em\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTara Selter, the heroine of \u003cem\u003eOn the Calculation of Volume\u003c\/em\u003e, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. 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For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that \"it is autumn, but that we're not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn't mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see.\" Where \u003cem\u003eBook I\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eII\u003c\/em\u003e focused on a single woman's involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, \u003cem\u003eBook III\u003c\/em\u003e brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality. And then of course, what of Tara's husband Thomas, still sitting alone day after day, entirely unawares, in their house in Clarion-sous-Bois, waiting for his wife to return? 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