Life in Tove's neighbourhood in Copenhagen is confusing and difficult: her father can't find work, her mother is angry and remote, and Tove herself sometimes thinks she's been exchanged at birth. But 'inside of me long, mysterious words began to crawl across my soul' and she soon realizes that she has a vocation, something unknowable and secret within, and that if she can only find the right words, she will one day succeed in forging a true life of her own - somewhere beyond the narrow streets of her childhood. 
The first volume in Ditlvesen's autobiographical trilogy, Childhood captures the triumphs and tragedies of girlhood with intense vividness and a poet's clarity of vision.

Childhood (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Tove Ditlevsen

Literary

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

The Trouble with Happiness (International Edition) (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Classics

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.

The Trouble with Happiness

Early Spring

Reference

The Women"s Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Tiina Nunnally

Arts & Literature

Seal Press

Detstvo

No Kidding Press

Trilogia de Copenhagen. Infancia. Juventude e Dependencia (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Companhia das Letras

Gift

Natur & kultur

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