The Details: The intoxicating international bestseller

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION) WINNER OF THE AFTONBLADET LITERARY PRIZE 2022'Damn it, I've underlined half the book. I wish I could write like this' Fredrik Backman, author of A MAN CALLED OVE'Brief and penetrating . . . Genberg's marvellous prose [is] a kind of a fever, mesmerizing and hot to the touch' Catherine Lacey, NEW YORK 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 LESSONS'An ode to the different kinds of love that form us . . . I won't forget this beautiful book' Jenna Clake, author of DISTURBANCE'A fever dream . . . A feat of characterization, a triumph of lending language and profundity to observations of daily life' LITERARY HUB
Copyright:
2023

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ISBN-13:
9781035400591
Related ISBNs:
9781035400577
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Copyrighted By:
Ia Genberg
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Kira Josefsson

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