The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen
The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen
SKU: B9780241537381 • Barcode: 9780241537381

The Trouble with Happiness

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Classic fiction: literary and general
  • Genre / subject: Fiction in translation
  • Author: Tove Ditlevsen
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Trouble with Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen is a translated short-story collection for adult readers.

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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