Trouble with Happiness

An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy `The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can`t have. That`s where all the happiness is` In 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.