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Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book author, wife, and mother of three, is haunted by incorporeal shapes and voices that gradually become more persistent and tormenting. She is certain that her husband, who is repeatedly unfaithful, will leave her in the harshest way. She believes her children despise her. Above all, she fears she will never write again.
However, as she sinks into the world of nursing institutions and pills, she begins to wonder: is madness truly something that threatens her or does it offer her a kind of freedom? "The Faces" is the gripping novel of a woman teetering on the edge of a razor blade, captured by the author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, with all the vividness of lived experience.
"Ditlevsen astonishingly explores Lise's experience: from her own perspective, madness can be enjoyable, gentle, safe, and far more enlightening than the 'reality' she struggles to escape." The New York Times
"Ditlevsen's writing is poignantly human. She knows the harsh ingenuity of the mind to adjust pain to our worst fears. As a writer, her heroine Lise recognizes that the opposite of fear is not happiness but hope, the hope she felt in her body 'in the form of tender, melodic phrases'." The Guardian
Manufacturer
- Author
- Tove Ditlevsen
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- The faces (=Ansigterne)
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Skroutz Book Awards 2026
- -
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Release Date
- 13/12/2024
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601657141
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