The first in a sequence of novels. The premise is temporal confinement to a single day: the narrator finds that time has stopped moving forward and begins to navigate the whorls of possibility that this loop of time allows. Dazzling, intelligent, enthralling.
On the Calculation of Volume: I
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Edition:Paperback978057138337510/04/2025
Categories: Fiction, New Paperbacks
Tag: Fiction in Translation
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