The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen - ISBN: 9780241752258
Paperback
Hidden longings surface in devastating prose; desires laid bare.

The Umbrella

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2025

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Summary

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.

‘Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by chance or infrequently.’

Longing shimmers from these spare but profoundly moving short stories by one of Denmark’s most fearless and sharp-eyed authors. In these tales of inarticulate desire and repression, Ditlevsen pulls to the surface our deepest i…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241752258
ISBN-10:0241752256
Author:Tove Ditlevsen
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:15 July 2025
Weight:72g
Dimensions:181mm x 111mm x 8mm
Series:Penguin Archive
About The Author

Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including the novels The Faces and Vilhelm’s Room and her autobiographical masterpiece, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and died by suicide in 1976.

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