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The Trouble with Happiness

ID 422626
Slug the-trouble-with-happiness
Contributors
Author : Tove Ditlevsen
Annotation
Description From one of Denmark's most celebrated writers and the author of Childhood, Youth and Dependency, these short stories are brief, devastating, acid-sharp portrayals of love, marriage and family in mid-century Copenhagen. Here the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a married woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella, a girl dreaming of a masquerade ball - become dark and disconcerting, as we see what lies beneath.
Genres
Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 184
Duration
Publication date first 2022-04-19
Publication date latest 2022-04-19
Cover URL
Editions
  • ISBN: 9780374605605 (BB)

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