Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers. 'Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice' Boyd Tonkin Spectator'Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsen's trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent' Observer'The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling' New Statesman

''Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece'' Liz Jensen, Guardian

Following one woman''s journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark''s most celebrated twentieth-century writers.

''Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice'' Boyd Tonkin Spectator

''Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsen''s trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent'' Observer

''The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling'' New Statesman

• | Author: Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2021
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780241457573
• | ISBN-10: 0241457572