Vilhelm's Room - Penguin Modern Classics

The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The Copenhagen Trilogy

Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage aged 51, but youthful in spirit wonderful son, aged 15 household literary name summerhouse large flat in the city centre temporarily incapacitated by a nervous breakdown prefers a motorist.

Vilhelm is gone; the room where he and Lise once loved each other will soon be destroyed. When Lise places a lonely hearts advert in the newspaper, she sets off a train of tragicomic events that culminates in an annihilating, inevitable finale. Tove Ditlevsens final novel 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