*On the Calculation of Volume, I and II*

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Thoee two novels by Solvej Balle, a Danish author, are now available in English.  Conceptually, they are close to time travel novels (I should not tell you the actual nature of the twist), but with more literary value than you might be expecting.

Every now and then a new book comes along that is conceptual, fascinating, fun to read, good on human psychology, and in literary terms very well done.  The Balle books qualify there.  Each is also quite short, though the second half of each volume is better than the first, so there is a return to patience (to be clear, the first halves, or maybe thirds, are fine, but the true points are revealed only with some time).

There are some implicit economic and even crypto themes in the work, though I doubt if the author is aware of them.

So I recommend these, and will not go near potential spoilers.

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