Small ComfortLonglisted for the International Booker Prize! From the author and translator of The Details, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, comes a story about five peopleor five stories about small talk and big lies. From a successful child actor who has now turned into a failing thief to an actor hired to give a speech at a stranger's wedding to a couple feigning married bliss to keep their inheritance, Small Comfort brilliantly examines the

to the whirling leaves of fall and a snowy forest

and emotional infiltration

It is whatever one would consider the opposite of scientific

began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work

But a recent devastating accident has driven him to drink

Death’s loss leads to chaos

including his signature uniform of dark sunglasses and a powdered white ponytail

only her own life hung in the balance

Mack intends to keep his closely guarded heart out of Wes’s very talented hands

A las grandes fiestas y largos veraneos les seguirán la nevera vacía

the cyber and homeland security expert introduces us to a frightening world in which terrorists and cyber criminals don’t hack your computer

and cutting cultural analysis for an unforgettable work of social commentary and a genre-defining debut