The Second Volume in a Landmark European Masterpiece
A haunting, lyrical continuation of Tara Selter’s journey through a fractured time and continent.
“I was sure that through careful listening you could solve any problem that might arise. If you really listened. The great questions in life. Everything.”
Tara Selter is still lost in time.
A year has passed, and yet each morning greets her with the same newspaper headlines, the same routines, the same blank faces—no one else remembers the repeated 18th of November. Until one morning, a shift occurs: Tara boards a train and arrives in a different version of the same day. The faces have changed. The air is colder. And with that, a door opens.
No longer traveling through time, she begins to move across it—journeying across Europe to gather the signs of seasonal change: the glimmer of frost on a puddle, the breeze of early spring, the radiance of summer sun. These fragments offer hope. Hope that she can build a future of her own—a life that runs alongside the day she cannot escape.
Profound, poetic, and deeply original, this second volume furthers Tara’s quest with aching beauty and philosophical depth. A novel about memory, perception, and the quiet determination to reclaim meaning, even when time refuses to move.
Critic Reviews
"A Masterpiece of its Time"
Nordic Council Literature Prize Jury
Physical Info: 5.35 x 0.38 x 8.5 inches | 208 Pages | Paperback
Faber&Faber