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The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
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ISBN10: 1250863104
ISBN13: 9781250863102
Publisher: Picador Usa
Published: Apr 18 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.92
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250863102
Publisher: Picador Usa
Published: Apr 18 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.92
Language: English
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.Also in
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