{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-happiness-tove-ditlevsen","title":"The Trouble with Happiness (Tove Ditlevsen)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Copenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Michael Favala Goldman\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 192 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63607153328477,"sku":"K096140722","price":10.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/239253-9614072200001A.jpg?v=1771974884","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-trouble-with-happiness-tove-ditlevsen","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}