Description: The fourth installment of Balle's expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western world
Brief description: Solvej Balle, born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with the novel Lyrefugl, and went on to write the highly acclaimed According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind (praised by Publishers Weekly for its blend of "sly humor, bleak vision, and terrified sense of the absurd with a tacit intuition that the world has a meaning not yet fathomed"). She has also published a book on aesthetics, a political memoir, and two books of short prose. On the Calculation of Volume heralds the arrival of a major literary artist.
Review Quotes: Balle is our century's answer to Proust.--A.O. Scott "The New York Times"