Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories

Title: Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories Author: Tove Ditlevsen ISBN: 9781250863102 Publisher: Picador Paper Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1513218 Publisher Description: 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 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