The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By Tove Ditlevsen
Translated by Michael Favala Goldman
Read by Stine Wintlev
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ISBN: 9781250841223
The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated into English. 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 mid-century 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 the poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s, are now available in English for the first time. Listeners have a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.
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The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated into English.
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 mid-century 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 the poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s, are now available in English for the first time. Listeners have a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.
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Author Bio: Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) was an author, poet, and memoirist, born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties and was followed by many more books, including the three volumes of the Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, and Dependency. Her work won many awards, including the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat in 1953 and De Gyldne Laurbær in 1956.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 5.42 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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