The details begin with the narrator lying feverish with a virus - without a name!

- and when she reads an old favorite novel she suddenly remembers all the details of life.

She remembers Johanna, with whom she shared everything in the 90s;

kisses, literature, dreams.

But not class.

Johanna bought cheese over the counter, gave lavish gifts (a kind of violence) and disappeared into the public eye while the narrator shelved her ambitions to become a writer.

She does not intend to explain more.

She does not want to become a "pretentious fool with a grim life that neither Paul Auster nor anyone else could bear to describe the details of."

The next piece of the puzzle concerns the

narrator's relationship with the tricky Niki, who rushes through life driven by antipathies and drama.

When Niki disappears one day, the tracks are called "The Man Without Properties" and "Dyking's Daughter".

Then follows the story of Alejandro, the fatal man, and then the earliest piece of the puzzle.

Birgitte, the narrator's mother.

A woman who, after an assault, never came back to her life.

It is a searingly wistful portrait of a mother and a furious attack on chance or fate.

And at the same time a picture of a father and a daughter, and her questions to life.

How should it be understood?

Backwards or forwards?

Do we fall or rise in the happiness that in love and fever can give way to a utopian community?

"Perhaps this is how the whole can be told, with people without rank walking in and out through my face."

If you think of the literary world

as a mixture of circus and zoo - both a knowledge and entertainment that will probably soon be gone - then the exotic animals and the extravagant numbers shine in the eyes.

But sometimes you see something moving in the background.

Who don't hog the limelight or let the kids ride at recess.

Something different that you have to experience.

For the integrity, the beauty, the wild.

One such author is Ia Genberg.

Not to say that Ia Genberg has not been praised - but that is not enough!

Just take a masterpiece like her previous book, "Klen tröst - och four other stories om pengar" (2018) which, in the spirit of Ibsen, portrayed what money can do to human relationships.

It should be mandatory like a vaccine or a fulfilled dream.

With her fourth book, "Detaljerna", Ia Genberg shows what a necessary writer she is.

Her way of

creating new literature about time with selected novels, as a sweep of the past, much like all the layers of life, is of course a literary critic's dream.

But it's also pandemic literature at its finest - this is how many of us go kaleidoscopically through our lives in the shadow of cemeteries and quarantine right now.

In the future, we will read this novel historically – too.

Wild, beautiful and with human knowledge in every detail.