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The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories

By Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman (Translator)
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By Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman (Translator)
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The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, “a terrifying talent” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).

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 midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggl...

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