A Woman Falls Through The Cracks Of Time In The First Of Solvej Balle's Seven-novel-series The Bookshelf podcast

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A woman falls through the cracks of time in the first of Solvej Balle's seven-novel-series

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One day lived over and over again with humour, despair and self-improvement is what we’re up against in Danish novelist Solvej Balle’s On The Calculation of Volume, a fictional work in seven volumes, the first volume (the one we’re talking about in this episode), has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Plus, The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, the poet and novelist famous for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; and The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, a portrait of a spiky woman's life expanding through letters.

BOOKS

Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume l, (translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland), Faber

Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness, Jonathan Cape

Virginia Evans, The Correspondent, Michael Joseph

GUESTS

Sarah Holland-Batt, poet, critic and essayist. Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at QUT. Her latest poetry collection The Jaguar was awarded the Stella Prize in 2023

Hilde Hinton is a writer whose books include the novels The Loudness of Unsaid Things, A Solitary Walk on the Moon and her latest, The Opposite of Lonely

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDAnna Funder, WifedomFiona McFarlane worksMichelle de Kretser, Theory & Practice Bram Stoker, Dracula Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian MoleTayari Jones, An American Marriage Alice Walker, The Colour Purple Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin Annie Burrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge seriesNiall Campbell, The Island in the SoundChris Whittaker, All the Colours of the DarkInga Simpson, Willowman

CREDITS

Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh
Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Roi Huberman
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown

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