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The Trouble with Happiness
and Other Stories
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A shimmering collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated into English for the first time.
A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventional roles and finding freedom and happiness—without ever truly understanding what that might mean.
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Reviews suggest that The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen features splendid short stories with dazzling insight, celebrated for their intense and bracingly bleak nature. Ditlevsen's precise prose is acknowledged as authentically lucid, vividly capturing themes of melancholy and despair with a crystal-clear focus. Her talent illuminates the depths of desire and despair, with each word being essential in her storytelling.
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ISBN: 9780241537381
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 March 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Michael Favala Goldman
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 146g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Tove Ditlevsen (Author) Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including the novels The Faces and Vilhelm's Room and her autobiographical masterpiece, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and died by suicide in 1976.
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