Vilhelm's Room: A Novel

A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic Copenhagen Trilogy.

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 . . .

Vilhelm is gone. He has abandoned Lise, and the room where they once loved each other will soon be destroyed. From a bed in a psychiatric ward, ...