The Trouble with Happiness - And Other Stories

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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Splendid short stories... the purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself
Lucy Scholes The Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Tove Ditlevsen, Ditlevsen Tove
• Assisted by: Michael Favala Goldman (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9780241537381
• ISBN: 978-0-241-53738-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Narrative theme: Interior life, FICTION / World Literature / Denmark, Classic fiction: general and literary