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

For the past 30 years, Danish author Solvej Balle has remained hard at work on her sprawling seven-part novel, On the Calculation of Volume. An ambitious, encyclopedic work that spans hundreds of ...
The Washington Post

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, ...
The Clarion-Ledger

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

"On the Calculation of Volume" is a seven-part Danish novel series now being translated into English. The story follows Tara Selter, a woman who is stuck reliving the same day, November 18th, ...
BBC

Volume of cylinders and prisms

Volume close volume The amount of space occupied by a 3D shape, measured in cubic units such as cm³, mm³, and m³. May also be referred to as capacity. is measured in cubic units such as cm³ or m³. The ...
Publishers Weekly

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 ...