{"title":"International Booker Prize 2026","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-director","title":"The Director","description":"","brand":"Fictionary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43946078109732,"sku":"9781529435122","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/3068\/3172\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_190a5efb-5525-4391-8764-413de3499d19.jpg?v=1775311460"},{"product_id":"small-comfort","title":"Small Comfort","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e'You know, love is love, he says. But what about the revolution?'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIntricately built and wickedly humorous, these five interconnected short stories are all about one thing: money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSmall Comfort\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eskewers its characters, slyly implicating the reader along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliantly original and thought-provoking collection from the author and translator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Details\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMore praise for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSmall Comfort\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A delightful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that brings to mind Joan Didion' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eExpressen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSvenska Dagbladet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I haven't read anything better this year' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSydsvenskan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Genberg captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGöteborgs-Poste\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Ia Genberg:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Miraculous' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHernan Diaz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTrust\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I wish I could write like this' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFredrik Backman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Man Called Ove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'So good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMark Haddon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mesmerizing and hot to the touch' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCatherine Lacey,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fictionary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44079513239588,"sku":"9781035433940","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/3068\/3172\/files\/71OT3bDSaQL._SY466.jpg?v=1776427467"},{"product_id":"the-wax-child","title":"The Wax Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. 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In time, it begins to understand that once a suspicion of witchcraft has taken hold, it can prove impossible to shake…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on an infamous seventeenth century Danish witch trial, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wax Child\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the extraordinary new novel from Olga Ravn, one of the most acclaimed and original writers at work today: a mesmerising, frightening vision of a time when witches and magic were as real to the human mind as soil and seawater.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fictionary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44079579136036,"sku":"9780241752746","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/3068\/3172\/files\/811KB2x_hkL._SY466.jpg?v=1776430248"},{"product_id":"the-witch","title":"The Witch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucie comes from a long line of witches, powers passed down from mother to daughter. 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