{"product_id":"9781913744243","title":"The Calf","description":"Author: Leif Hghaug\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781913744243\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 18 Feb 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 200\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861472497822,"sku":"ADS-9781913744243","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781913744243.jpg?v=1779252392","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781913744243","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}