August Prize and bookstore megasuccess in Sweden in 2022 (200,000 copies sold), The details — which was shortlisted for the Booker International Prize — is a melancholic drift through a Stockholm of fading colors. A look back in which the narrator engages in a feverish inventory of breakups, extinguished friendships or vanished feelings. Like this intense love story with Johanna in the 1990s, who instantly became “main character”. Or her “sumptuous trifle” at the turn of the year 2000 with a certain Alejandro, probable father of her first child. The madness of his mother and the outbursts of an intense roommate become memories brewed in the writing, since “the chronology is of no importance, only the details count”. In prose that is captivating, falsely spontaneous, and reminiscent of Deborah Levy, Ia Genberg, a Swedish journalist and novelist born in 1967, resurrects an era of landline telephones, postcards and suspended time.
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