{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-happiness-9780241537381","title":"The Trouble with Happiness","description":"By: Tove Ditlevsen   | Series: Penguin Modern Classics \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Copenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife, a woman's obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella - become dark and disconcerting. Here Tove Ditlevsen explores yearning, fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Authentic, unforced and utterly lucid' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer with melancholy and despair' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Michael Favala Goldman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"GB - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44526235058403,"sku":"DTRPRUK-9780241537381","price":102.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":49013110997219,"sku":"DTRMCUS-9781250863102","price":109.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/812j0NEkWdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1765183909","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/the-trouble-with-happiness-9780241537381","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}