The Trouble with Happiness

by Tove Ditlevsen

Genres: Anthologies; Family Life

Synopsis

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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 love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventional roles and finding freedom and happiness - without ever truly understanding what that might mean.

© Tove Ditlevsen 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Release date: March 15, 2022

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Print pages: 224