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The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories

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'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn 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 ha...

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Description

Product ID:9780241537381
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Title:The Trouble with Happiness
Subtitle:and Other Stories
Authors:Author: Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman
Page Count:192
Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Fiction in translation, Short stories, Fiction in translation
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'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn 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 MailTranslated by Michael Favala Goldman

''So clear is Ditlevsen''s eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away'' John Self, Guardian

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

Translated by Michael Favala Goldman


Imprint Name:Penguin Classics
Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2023-03-02