Third of seven-part novel questions what we owe each other as humans

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)” came to me via the National Book Foundation Longlist for Best Translated Literature in ...
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Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time

The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key ...

Award-Winning Author Releases Third Volume in Seven-Part Novel – And Critics Are Already Calling It 'A Masterpiece'

Arriving in American book shelves on November 18, the third entry in Balle's novel has already been dubbed "a sensation" by ...
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If Samuel Beckett wrote ‘Groundhog Day,’ you might get this Danish novel

“On the Calculation of Volume,” an ongoing seven-part novel by the Danish writer Solvej Balle, is the story of a single day in the life of its protagonist, the antiquarian book dealer Tara Selter, ...
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

Solvej Balle, trans. from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3725-3 Balle (According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind) launches a speculative ...
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Review: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle

In this, the first of a three-book series about a woman stuck in a day, the protagonist Tara Selter wakes up every morning to the eighteenth of November What if stories were written in time than in ...