The four young characters of the Swedish author's slender volume grippingly embody everyday life, its enduring relationships and its anxieties The Details (Hachette) is only 155 pages long, so I am committing it to memory. The details in these pages are my life, probably your life – zephyrs glancing through our skin moment by moment, so nuanced that we don't notice. Swedish writer Ia Genberg has an idea about what that weird concept 'self' is: 'traces of the people we rub up against'. Genberg's novel has swept through the world in much the same way as Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry .

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/october/helen-elliott/ia-genberg-s-details

#themonthly