About the Book: On the Calculation of Volume V: Our centurys answer to Proust
New York Times
Tara Selter has become someone new.
It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was.
Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that
moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind.
Tara has returned to Thomas, but she is no longer the person he remembers. She
has now spent twelve years in the eighteenth of November, while Thomas has
endlessly repeated his identical day. He struggles to reconcile Tara as she