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The Trouble with Happiness
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Tove Ditlevsen
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Domestic Fiction,
- Mid-Century Copenhagen
This book is for you if you're into...
- Mid-century Copenhagen family drama with simmering undercurrents
- Short stories where small desires spark big consequences
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen.
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 marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly understanding what that might mean.
Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark's most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on re-publication in English.
The poignant and understated stories in The Trouble with Happiness, written in the 1950s and 1960s and never before translated into English, offer readers a new chance to encounter the quietly devastating work of this essential twentieth-century writer.
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