Tove Ditlevsen: The Trouble with Happiness - Taschenbuch

´So clear is Ditlevsen´s eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away´ John Self, Guardian

An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy

´The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can´t have. That´s where all the happiness is´

In 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.

´The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen´s writing speaks for itself´ Daily Telegraph

´Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid´ Sunday Times

´Ditlevsen´s wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair´ Daily Mail

Translated by Michael Favala Goldman