Title:: [[On the Calculation of Volume III]] Authors:: [[Solvej Balle]] Tags:: #fiction #translatedfiction Read:: [[2025-10-22]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQIDSbGjllb/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[New Directions]], 2025, Advanced Review Copy - Original Copyright:: 2022 - Pages:: 177 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780811238397 ## Cover Photo `` ## Annotations Highly recommend the third installment of Balle’s On The Calculation of Volume, especially those with (misplaced!) reservations about sticking with this for seven installments Balle’s writing through the eyes of her protagonist, Tara Selter, is calming, meditative, and aware. The effect on me the reader is to slow down and be more aware of the small things that make up the days that too often blur into one another. It’s a theme of these novels that seems more directly revealed here than in the first two.