THE DETAILS :SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE – IA GENBERG-KIRA JOSEFSSON

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2022 (BEST FICTION) [A] miraculous sort of novel Hernan Diaz I wish I could write like this Fredrik Backman So good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later Mark Haddon Mesmerizing and hot to the touch THE NEW YORK TIMES Textured insights into human nature NEW YORKER Wistfully recalls a time when what was lost stayed lost THE TIMES A 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 A woozy, affecting dive into desire, domination and memory FINANCIAL TIMES An ode to the different kinds of love that form us . . . I won t forget this beautiful book Jenna Clake, author o