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Vilhelm's Room

Vilhelm's Room

Ditlevsen, Tove
Smith, Sophia Hersi
Russell, Jennifer

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 0374613494
ISBN13: 9780374613495
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.55
Language: English

A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic Copenhagen Trilogy.

I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm . . .

The ripples from a breakup radiate outward from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts ad sets off a train of tragicomic events that leads to an inevitable conclusion. Vilhelm's Room, Tove Ditlevsen's final novel--published a year before her untimely death in 1976--is a powerful conclusion to an extraordinary life as a poet, novelist, and memoirist: a blackly funny and devastating tour de force that pulses with life even as it journeys toward death.

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