Photo: Sara Mackey Handwritten greeting We meet four people with whom the narrator had a close relationship at various times in the nineties. 1967) was awarded the Swedish August Prize for “Detaljarna ». With an almost uncanny precision, Ia Genberg tears away the curtain of the nineties she, and I, (and maybe you too?) were young in. But here comes the novel that last year ran away with Sweden’s most prestigious literary prize, and it is not difficult to see why. What were the 1990s like – for you? What do you remember? What have you forgotten? To what extent has our contemporary age, with its ubiquitous screens and its perpetual demands for accessibility, settled like a kind of fog over our recent past? How different things were just a few decades ago, many of us have forgotten or repressed.
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