The Trouble With Happiness
The Trouble With Happiness
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Author
Author
Tove Ditlevsen / Тове Дитлевсен
Dimension
Dimension
130x200mm (5,1'x7,9')
ISBN
ISBN
9780241537381
Format
Format
Paperback
Language
Language
English
Page Count
Page Count
192
Publisher
Publisher
Penguin
Year of book publication
Year of book publication
2023
The Trouble With Happiness
An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy
'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'
In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.
'The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself' Daily Telegraph
'Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid' Sunday Times
'Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair' Daily Mail
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:Tove Ditlevsen - Тове Дитлевсен
Publisher:Penguin
Language:English
Publication Date:2023
Number of pages:192 pst
Format:Paperback
Width:130 mm / 5,1'
Height:200 mm / 7,9'
Weight:147 g
ISBN:9780241537381