Four already seemed like a lot, but in actual fact we were merely a fraction of the horde of translators contracted by twenty-seven publishing houses around the world to translate this book. Detaljerna, published earlier that year, had been a runaway success and would go on to win the prestigious August Prize in November. It’s the fourth novel from Ia Genberg, who debuted at forty-five after leaving a career in journalism and retraining as a nurse in order to be able to save her writing for fiction.