Description: The much anticipated fifth installment of Solvej Balle's "speculative masterwork" (New York Magazine) On the Calculation of Volume, a literary classic in the making
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: The Danish author Solvej Balle's experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders.-- "The New York Times"