Description: Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia's most important literary award) for being "a masterpiece of its time."
Brief description: Barbara J. Haveland (born 1951) is a Scottish literary translator, resident in Copenhagen. She translates fiction, poetry and drama from Danish and Norwegian to English. She has translated works by many leading Danish and Norwegian writers, both classic and contemporary, including Henrik Ibsen, Peter Høeg, Linn Ullmann and Carl Frode Tiller.
Review Quotes: Solvej Balle's magical On the Calculation of Volume takes the seemingly exhausted conceit of groundhog day and uses it as the key to her seemingly inexhaustible - or at least seven-volume - universe. Though I have only read the first, I was smitten.--Richard Flanagan "Times Literary Supplement"