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On the Calculation of Volume IV

On the Calculation of Volume, Book 4

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On the Calculation of Volume IV

By: Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith - translation, Jennifer Russell - translation
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
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Tara Selter is one of many.

In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around the daily routines of practical chores: gathering provisions, splitting firewood. But one morning, there are five new arrivals at their wrought-iron gate.

As more people continue to arrive, their home fills with movement, voices fill the air; a flurry of people asking questions, sharing their eighteenths of November. Slowly, they settle into a new routine and Tara begins to breathe a little easier. Could they create a new world inside the eighteenth of November?

©2026 Solvej Balle (P)2026 Faber & Faber Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature
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This series of books are all the same mundane and even a little boring. It’s the same day again and again and again and yet she will just drop a bomb at the end of every book that will give you just enough hope and intrigue to want to read the next book. While I don’t love this series I’m so interested in what will happen next.

I don’t know how she does it

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I think only the first book was fully thought out. Every book afterwards seems to have been thinly conceived and been forced to cash in on short-term hype. Books II, III and IV literally cover the same half baked, sophomoric ideas over and over again both within each book and across the whole series. Disappointing given that the series had such a compelling start.

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