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The Trouble with Happiness
- Author
- Tove Ditlevsen
- Narrator
- Stine Wintlev
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 3 March 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
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Utterly, agonisingly compulsive . . . A masterpiece' (praise for Childhood, Youth, Dependency)
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Details
- Author
- Tove Ditlevsen
- Narrator
- Stine Wintlev
- Duration
- 5 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 March 2022
- ISBN
- 9780241584736
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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
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