{"product_id":"the-calf-leif-hoghaug-paperback","title":"The Calf -- Leif Høghaug, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart Appalachian gothic, part science fiction, part Norwegian western, \u003cem\u003eThe Calf\u003c\/em\u003e is a darkly comic backwoods phantasmagoria that bends genres until they break in a feat of linguistic experimentation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the linguistic inventions of Twain and Faulkner, translator David M. Smith boldly reimagines the rural dialect of Leif H ghaug'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. \u003cem\u003eThe Calf\u003c\/em\u003e is a howl from the margins, a cracked hymn of language under pressure--conceived and written alongside the author's Norwegian translation of \u003cem\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/em\u003e, and unmistakably charged with that book's spirit of dream logic, doubleness, and rapturous musicality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Leif Høghaug\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fum d'Estampa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0\" H x 0\" L x 0\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781913744243\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50945635320112,"sku":"9781913744243","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781913744243.jpg?v=1784226039","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/the-calf-leif-hoghaug-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}