On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Balle, Solvej
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Balle, Solvej

On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing"...
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Balle, Solvej

On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

$23.82
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Balle, Solvej

On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

$23.82
Author: Solvej Balle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing" (The Washington Post) septology, Tara's November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that "it is autumn, but that we're not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn't mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see." Where Book I and II focused on a single woman's involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, Book III brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality. And then of course, what of Tara's husband Thomas, still sitting alone day after day, entirely unawares, in their house in Clarion-sous-Bois, waiting for his wife to return? Blending poetry and philosophical inquiry with rich reflections on our discombobulating times, Balle's On the Calculation of Volume asks us to consider: What is a single person's responsibility to humanity and to the preservation of this world?



Author: Solvej Balle
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780811238397


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2025
Publishers Weekly 09/15/2025
Booklist 10/01/2025

About the Author
Balle, Solvej: - Solvej Balle was born in 1962, made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl, and she went on to write one of the 1990s' most acclaimed works of Danish literature, 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"). Since then, she's published a book on art theory, Det umuliges kunst, 2005, a political memoir Frydendal og andre gidsler, 2008, and two books of short prose Hvis and Så, published simultaneously in 2013. On the Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle's major comeback, not just to Danish or Nordic fiction, but--expanding the possibilities of the novel--to all of world literature.Russell: - Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell are translators living in Copenhagen. Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, and Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild.
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