The Trouble with Happiness - and Other Stories

'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, Guardian<BR><BR>An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy<BR><BR>'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'<BR><BR>In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.<BR><BR>'The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair' Daily Mail<BR><BR>Translated by Michael Favala Goldman