The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala GoldmanPublish date:2023-04-18Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250863102ISBN-10:1250863104UPC:9781250863102Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, Family LifeBook Topic:Denmark, Marriage & DivorceSize:7.92 x 5.06 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC719SCXN1
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).
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 midcentury 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 her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on republication in English, named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250863102ISBN-10:1250863104UPC:9781250863102Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, Family LifeBook Topic:Denmark, Marriage & DivorceSize:7.92 x 5.06 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC719SCXN1
Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighborhood 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 three volumes of The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood (1967), Youth (1967), and Dependency (1971). She died in 1976.
Michael Favala Goldman is the translator of over fifteen books of Danish literature and the award-winning author of several collections of original poetry. He lives in western Massachusetts.Publisher: Picador USA
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