The Details: Shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize by Ia Genberg P

Description: The Details by Ia Genberg, Kira Josefsson An intoxicating international bestseller about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past, the memories laid bare in vivid detail as her body temperature races - for fans of Rachel Cusk and Lucia Berlin FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION)[A] miraculous sort of novel Hernan DiazI wish I could write like this Fredrik BackmanSo good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later Mark HaddonMesmerizing and hot to the touch THE NEW YORK TIMESTextured insights into human nature NEW YORKERWistfully recalls a time when what was lost stayed lost THE TIMESA famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety.In the throes of a high fever, a woman lies bedridden. Suddenly, she is struck with an urge to revisit a particular novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a message from an ex-girlfriend. Pages from her past begin to flip, full of things she cannot forget and people who cannot be forgotten. Johanna, that same ex-girlfriend, now a famous TV host. Niki, the friend who disappeared all those years ago. Alejandro, who appears like a storm in precisely the right moment. And Birgitte, whose elusive qualities shield a painful secret. Who is the real subject of a portrait, the person being painted or the one holding the brush? The Details is a novel built around four such portraits, unveiling the fragments of memory and experience that make up a life. In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human.MORE PRAISE FOR THE DETAILS: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 LESSONSA woozy, affecting dive into desire, domination and memory FINANCIAL TIMESAn ode to the different kinds of love that form us . . . I wont forget this beautiful book Jenna Clake, author of DISTURBANCEA fever dream . . . A feat of characterization, a triumph of lending language and profundity to observations of daily life LITERARY HUB Author Biography 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. Review 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 TRUSTThe 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, Ive underlined half of the book. I wish I could write like this. -- Fredrik Backman, New York Times bestselling author of A MAN CALLED OVEBrief and penetrating . . . Genbergs marvellous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the touch -- Catherine Lacey * New York Times *The nonlinear narrative renders the protagonist both vivid and obscure - the perfect conduit for this compelling, uncannily precise meditation on transience. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *Wistfully recalls a time when what was lost stayed lost . . . It has the smooth documentary realism of a life reconstucted in close-up -- Claire Allfree * The Times *Emotionally nuanced and formally innovative, Ia Genbergs 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 LESSONSIn 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 wont forget this beautiful book. -- Jenna Clake, author of DISTURBANCEIts difficult to describe the experience of reading Ia Genbergs English language debut beyond saying that it resembles a fever dream . . . Genbergs prose is a feat of characterization, a triumph of lending language and profundity to observations of daily life. At a tight 150 pages, I didnt read it so much as subconsciously absorb it. -- Eliza Smith * Literary Hub * Details ISBN1035400588 Author Kira Josefsson Pages 176 Publisher Headline Publishing Group Year 2024 Translator Kira Josefsson ISBN-13 9781035400584 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-18 Imprint Wildfire Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 839.738 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-01-18 ISBN-10 1035400588 AU Release Date 2024-04-29 NZ Release Date 2024-04-29 Subtitle Shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:157855172;

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