On the Calculation of Volume III
By (Author) Solvej Balle
Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith
Translated by Jennifer Russell
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
18th November 2025
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Speculative fiction
Fiction in translation
Paperback
208
Width 135mm, Height 216mm
The third volume of the landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time.
Tara Selter is no longer alone.
I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday.
'A classic in the making.' Chetna Maroo
'I'm counting the days until the next instalment.' Jon McGregor
'Absolutely, absolutely fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgaard
Solvej Balle was born in 1962 and made her debut in 1986 with Lyrefugl (Lyrebird.) She went on to write one of the 1990s' most acclaimed works of Danish literature, Iflge loven (1993) ('According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind', translated by Barbara Haveland.) On Calculation of Volume is Solvej Balle's return to literary stardom after nearly 30 years.
Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith are translators from the Danish based in Copenhagen. Their translations include My Work by Olga Ravn and There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen. In 2020, they were awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Translation Prize. Their translations have appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Granta, Asymptote, and on stage.