{"product_id":"the-faces-tove-ditlevsen","title":"The Faces (Tove Ditlevsen)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of Denmark's most celebrated writers' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonder, is insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ditlevsen explores the surprising contours of Lise's experience: from her point of view, madness can be funny, soft and secure, and far more enlightening than the \"reality\" it struggles to evade' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Tiina Nunnally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTove Ditlevsen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Faces\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVilhelm's Room\u003c\/i\u003e and her autobiographical masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eChildhood \u003c\/i\u003e(1967), \u003ci\u003eYouth \u003c\/i\u003e(1967) and \u003ci\u003eDependency \u003c\/i\u003e(1971). She married four times and died by suicide in 1976.\n\u003cb\u003eTiina Nunnally\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator (from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish) and novelist. She was awarded the prestigious PEN Translation Prize in 2001 for her translation of the third volume of Sigrid Undset's \u003ci\u003eKristin Lavransdatter\u003c\/i\u003e, and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen and Tove Ditlevsen for Penguin Classics have been widely praised.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 144 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65805652885853,"sku":"K089063512","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8906351200001A.jpg?v=1788468664","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-faces-tove-ditlevsen","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}