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Vilhelm's Room
- Author
- Tove Ditlevsen
- Narrator
- Helen Bang
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 4 September 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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I want to write a book about Vilhelm’s room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise’s death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm...
The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen’s final novel – published a year before her suicide in 1976 – is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.
© Tove Ditlevsen 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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Ditlevsen makes this darkest of all material fascinating, perversely likable and occasionally revelatory. She’s a brilliant writer and formidable thinker
Guardian
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Reading Vilhelm’s Room, the final novel from the great Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen, what hits you first is how wonderful her sentences are […] Ditlevsen’s unusual way of seeing the world, and her sprightly humour, run throughout this short book, […] which now appears in English for the first time in a spirited translation by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell […] A beguiling, often confounding novel from one of the 20th century’s most original writers
Observer
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Details
- Author
- Tove Ditlevsen
- Narrator
- Helen Bang
- Duration
- 5 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781837311347
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. I want to write a book about Vilhelm’s room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise’s death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm... The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen’s final novel – published a year before her suicide in 1976 – is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.© Tove Ditlevsen 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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