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A New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her...

Author

Tove Ditlevsen

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (633 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14