{"product_id":"the-calf","title":"The Calf","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781913744243\u003cbr\u003eFormat: With flaps\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Appalachian gothic, part science fiction, part Norwegian western,The Calfisadarkly comic backwoods phantasmagoriathat bends genres until they break in a feat of linguistic experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a subterranean office labyrinth somewhere in Hadeland, Norway, a mechanical barn gnome with a metal bucket for a head spends his days shredding paper, brewing coffee, and trying to forget a certain late summer night in the woods sometime in the 1980s. That night-hazy, mythic, traumatic-centers on the Mare Cooter Canyon and a ragtag bunch of teenage boys calling themselves \"the cowboys.\" As the narrator's memory crackles and sputters, we encounter grotesque archetypes: a resurrected Christ-like figure called the Dead Feller, a mysterious, moon-faced woman who may be an employment caseworker, and a strange, amorphous alien called the Calf. What happened out there, and who-or what-is telling the story?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the linguistic inventions of Twain and Faulkner, translator David M. Smith boldly reimagines theruraldialect of Leif Hghaug's original, bringing it into a lush, inventive Appalachian English. The result is a voice that's as haunted, broken, and unforgettable as its narrator.The Calfis a howl from the margins, a cracked hymn of language under pressure-conceived and written alongside theauthor'sNorwegiantranslation ofFinnegans Wake, and unmistakably charged with that book's spirit of dream logic, doubleness, and rapturous musicality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859901292677,"sku":"PR434066","price":47.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG8YW46E0P3.jpg?v=1789111474","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-calf","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}