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International Booker Spotlight: Solvej Balle and the Power of Translated Fiction: LWID S3E26 (replay)
Description
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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- Kalpita - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalpitabhosale/
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