Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 2

Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 2 - Paperback

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Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 2 - Paperback

Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 2 - Paperback

by Tove Ditlevsen
$15.00
$15.00

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by Tove Ditlevsen (Author), Tiina Nunnally (Translator)

The acclaimed Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" --The Guardian) continues with Youth. Following Childhood, this second volume finds the young author consumed in trials by fire that only fuel her relentless passion for artistic freedom--placing her on a devastating and destructive path recounted in the final volume, Dependency.

Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a checkered career in a string of low-paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As Europe slides into war, she must navigate exploitative bosses, a Nazi landlady, and unwelcome sexual encounters on the road to hard-won independence. Yet she remains ruthlessly determined in the pursuit of her poetic vocation--until at last the miracle she has always dreamed of appears to be within reach.

Youth, the second volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a strikingly honest and immersive portrait of adolescence, filled with biting humor, vulnerability, and poeticism.

Author Biography

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties and was followed by many more books, including the three volumes of the Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood (1967), Youth (1967), and Dependency (1971). She died in 1976.

Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.5 x 7.4 x 4.9 IN
Publication Date: January 26, 2021
ISBN9780374539405
Author Tove Ditlevsen
PublisherFsg Originals
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages128
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties and was followed by many more books, including the three volumes of The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood (1967), Youth (1967), and Dependency (1971). She died in 1976. Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell are translators living in Copenhagen. Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, and Solvej Balle.

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