On the Calculation of Volume (Book VI)

In the highly anticipated sixth volume of the best-selling septology by Solvej Balle —“our century’s answer to Proust” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times) — Tara is ready to turn back

The penultimate installment of Solvej Balle’s “speculative masterwork” (New York) opens on Day #10463: Tara Selter travels to a set of abandoned greenhouses outside Naples to join other time-trapped people who have converged there to grow vegetables. “One must tend one’s own garden,” urged Epicurus (and Voltaire),...