Vilhelm's Room

Author(s): Ditlevsen, Tove,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 04/09/2025,
Pagination: 160 pages,
Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
Imprint: Penguin Classics,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945),
Dimensions: 215 x 136 x 15
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780241628980

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The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The Copenhagen TrilogyI want to write a book about Vilhelm’s room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise’s death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm... The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen’s final novel – published a year before her suicide in 1976 – is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.

Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

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