Collected By Alice

  "Small Comfort" is the first collection of short to medium stories Long Listed for the International Booker Prize. Short stories collections are definitely not a genre I seek out, but usually a quite welcomed one when end up reading it. The work of Ia Genberg focuses primarily on the strong themes: wealth, power and privilege. How does one behave differently when offered an advantageous amount of wealth? What is the human relation to something to abstract as money? Do we end up believing we deserve it? Success Greger ⭐⭐⭐ "Success Greger" exploits the genre of interview transcripts, to allow us to meet the twisted and complex Greger. He is a failed child actor, who recently found himself involved in a car theft, which left the authority puzzled as well the interviewer, Ia herself. The original aim of the interview would be to investigate in the actor's memory to remember and commemorate a famous Swedish screenwriter, who wrote the character for his only movie. ...