Ia Genberg (b. 1967) began her writing career as a journalist. She published her debut novel, Sweet Friday, in 2012., followed by another novel, Belated Farewell (2013) and the short story collection Small Comfort, and four other tales about money (2018). The Details, her third novel, was an instant Swedish bestseller, and has since sold in 30 territories all over the world.
Textured insights into human nature.
*The New Yorker*
This beautiful, moving book unfolds in four stand-alone portraits
that, together, yield a sharp, poignant picture of the portraitist.
The narrative blurs the boundaries that separate memoir from
fiction, past from present, and self from other, which evokes the
spell of fever during which it was written. The miraculous sort of
novel that fuses with our personal memories and becomes part of
us
*Hernan Diaz, author of TRUST*
The Details is about relationships, about love, about parents and
children...about all of it. The little observations about being
young, and about growing up, and about getting lost by accident,
and getting lost on purpose, searching for yourself in everyone
else...damn it, I've underlined half of the book. I wish I could
write like this.
*Fredrik Backman, New York Times bestselling author of A MAN CALLED
OVE*
Brief and penetrating . . . Genberg's marvellous prose is also a
kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the touch
*New York Times*
The nonlinear narrative renders the protagonist both vivid and
obscure - the perfect conduit for this compelling, uncannily
precise meditation on transience.
*Observer*
Wistfully recalls a time when what was lost stayed lost . . . It
has the smooth documentary realism of a life reconstucted in
close-up
*The Times*
Emotionally nuanced and formally innovative, Ia Genberg's beautiful
novel The Details manages the remarkable feat of painting a whole
picture of a single life, solely via the lives of the people who
have touched it. This is a novel that, through its very bones,
encapsulates one of the most important ideas of our current
political moment - the necessity of connection, and our
vulnerability to one other.
*Susannah Dickey, author of TENNIS LESSONS*
In four succinct and arresting portraits, the narrator of The
Details remembers the people who have shaped her life. At once
humorous and heartbreaking, this book is an ode to the different
kinds of love that form us. It asks how we hold onto the people who
touch us, how we remember them, and whether we should ever let them
go. I won't forget this beautiful book.
*Jenna Clake, author of DISTURBANCE*
It's difficult to describe the experience of reading Ia Genberg's
English language debut beyond saying that it resembles a fever
dream . . . Genberg's prose is a feat of characterization, a
triumph of lending language and profundity to observations of daily
life. At a tight 150 pages, I didn't read it so much as
subconsciously absorb it.
*Literary Hub*
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