Ditlevsen Tove - The Trouble With Happiness And Other Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen a terrifying talent (Parul Sehgal The New York Times). 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 marriage and family life in midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire violence and despair as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy without ever truly understanding what that might mean. Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark's most famous and beloved writers and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on republication in English named a New York Times Best Book of the Year and lauded for its wry humor limpid prose and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth - century writer.
Title: The Trouble With Happiness And Other Stories
Author(s): Ditlevsen Tove
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250863102
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/18/2023
Category: Short Stories