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The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen
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I got The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen, for free from NetGalley for a fair and honest review.
The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by as the title suggest is a collection of short stories by, Tove Ditlevsen, a celebrated Danish writer, who better known for her poetry.
This collection of stories examines how sometimes when we get the things that gave us happiness, can also lead to the greatest disappointments.
For example, the story of the girl who wants an umbrella to a child going to stay with her father for the weekend after a divorce.
What I really liked about these stories although, they seem to have the same feel of fairy tales with the strong moral tones of the classic stories of another Danish storyteller Hans Christian Anderson.
This may seem to be more of the case as they were originally published in the 1970’s giving them some sort of an historical quality that books which were contemporary at the time have gained due to how long ago they were published.
All this makes The Trouble With Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen well worth reading for both its themes and its time in history.
I got The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen, for free from NetGalley for a fair and honest review.
The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by as the title suggest is a collection of short stories by, Tove Ditlevsen, a celebrated Danish writer, who better known for her poetry.
This collection of stories examines how sometimes when we get the things that gave us happiness, can also lead to the greatest disappointments.
For example, the story of the girl who wants an umbrella to a child going to stay with her father for the weekend after a divorce.
What I really liked about these stories although, they seem to have the same feel of fairy tales with the strong moral tones of the classic stories of another Danish storyteller Hans Christian Anderson.
This may seem to be more of the case as they were originally published in the 1970’s giving them some sort of an historical quality that books which were contemporary at the time have gained due to how long ago they were published.
All this makes The Trouble With Happiness by Tove Ditlevsen well worth reading for both its themes and its time in history.