Small Comfort: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026
Autor Ia Genberg Traducere de Kira Josefssonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2026
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026
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'I will be thinking about some of these stories for a long time' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW
'Such a fabulous read and a brilliant translation!!!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW
'An entertaining, thought-provoking piece of fiction' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW
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'You know, love is love, he says. But what about the revolution?'
Intricately built and wickedly humorous, these five interconnected short stories are all about one thing: money.
From an interview with a child-star-turned-thief to the mysterious death of an employee at a drug manufacturer - or the couple feigning marital bliss to keep their inheritance, Ia Genberg carefully unravels the value we place on both money and people.
What does it really mean to be in debt to someone? How does our financial worth permeate the ways we think and feel? And what do we lose when we supposedly win? Small Comfort skewers its characters, slyly implicating the reader along the way.
A brilliantly original and thought-provoking collection from the author and translator of The Details, shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
More praise for Small Comfort:
'A delightful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that brings to mind Joan Didion' - Expressen
'Her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life' - Svenska Dagbladet
'I haven't read anything better this year' - Sydsvenskan
'Genberg captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time' - Göteborgs-Poste
Praise for Ia Genberg:
'Miraculous' - Hernan Diaz, author of Trust
'I wish I could write like this' - Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove
'So good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
'Mesmerizing and hot to the touch' - Catherine Lacey, New York Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781035433940
ISBN-10: 103543394X
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: N/A
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Wildfire
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 103543394X
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: N/A
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Headline
Colecția Wildfire
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
A delightful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that brings to mind Joan Didion.
I haven't read anything better this year.
Genberg has a joy in language and precision in expression . . . she captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time; that smooth, qualified bullshit talk that makes truth or lies seem irrelevant.
Ia Genberg writes layered stories that resist easy categorisation. They are a kind of tall tales that the author anchors in reality through precise portrayals of the ways people think, speak, and behave. The sharpness of Genberg's powers of observation, her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life . . . Ia Genberg is a sharp stylist who effortlessly swings between the mundane and the profound.
From the author and translator of THE DETAILS, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, comes SMALL COMFORT - a book about five people and one thing: money.
From the successful child actor who has now turned into a failing thief; to an actor hired to give a speech at a stranger's wedding; to a couple feigning married bliss to keep their inheritance: Small Comfort is a brilliantly original examination of the value of people and money. How do financial structures, such as currency, relate to our own emotional landscapes? What does it really mean to be in debt to someone? And what do we lose when we supposedly win?
Praise for THE DETAILS:
'I wish I could write like this' Fredrik Backman, author of A MAN CALLED OVE
'Mesmerizing and hot to the touch' Catherine Lacey, NEW YORK TIMES
'Textured insights into human nature' THE NEW YORKER
'A woozy, affecting dive into desire, domination and memory' FINANCIAL TIMES
I haven't read anything better this year.
Genberg has a joy in language and precision in expression . . . she captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time; that smooth, qualified bullshit talk that makes truth or lies seem irrelevant.
Ia Genberg writes layered stories that resist easy categorisation. They are a kind of tall tales that the author anchors in reality through precise portrayals of the ways people think, speak, and behave. The sharpness of Genberg's powers of observation, her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life . . . Ia Genberg is a sharp stylist who effortlessly swings between the mundane and the profound.
From the author and translator of THE DETAILS, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, comes SMALL COMFORT - a book about five people and one thing: money.
From the successful child actor who has now turned into a failing thief; to an actor hired to give a speech at a stranger's wedding; to a couple feigning married bliss to keep their inheritance: Small Comfort is a brilliantly original examination of the value of people and money. How do financial structures, such as currency, relate to our own emotional landscapes? What does it really mean to be in debt to someone? And what do we lose when we supposedly win?
Praise for THE DETAILS:
'I wish I could write like this' Fredrik Backman, author of A MAN CALLED OVE
'Mesmerizing and hot to the touch' Catherine Lacey, NEW YORK TIMES
'Textured insights into human nature' THE NEW YORKER
'A woozy, affecting dive into desire, domination and memory' FINANCIAL TIMES