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 (forthcoming from ND). 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: ?A masterwork. In this extraordinary novel, as in our own shattered world, connection alone may be the one thing that endures.??Jacob Brogan, The Washington Post