Small Comfort : Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026

''A delightful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that brings to mind Joan Didion'' - Expressen


You know, love is love, he says. But what about the revolution?

Intricately built and wickedly humorous, this is a novel in five parts, 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 married bliss to keep their inheritance, Small Comfort 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 novel from the author and translator of The Details, shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.


More praise for Small Comfort:

I haven''t read anything better this year''

Sydsvenskan

Her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life''

Svenska Dagbladet

Genberg captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time''

Göteborgs-Posten

Praise for The Details:

''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