The trouble with happiness : and other stories
Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1917-19762023
Book
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.
Main title:
The trouble with happiness : and other stories / Tove Ditlevsen.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2023.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Danish.
ISBN:
9780241537381 (pbk)
Dewey class:
839.81372FICTION
Language:
EnglishDanish
BRN:
3386488