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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 05/09/2019
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ISBN: 9780241405550
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Length: 128 Pages
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Dimensions: 216mm x 9mm x 135mm
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Weight: 135g
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RRP: £9.99
The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers
Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a chequered career in a string of low-paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As Europe slides into war, she must navigate exploitative bosses, a Nazi landlady and unwelcome sexual encounters on the road to hard-won independence. Yet she remains ruthlessly determined in the pursuit of her poetic vocation - until at last the miracle she has always dreamed of appears to be within reach.
Youth, the second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, is a strikingly honest and immersive portrait of adolescence, filled with biting humour, vulnerability and poeticism.
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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 05/09/2019
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ISBN: 9780241405550
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Length: 128 Pages
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Dimensions: 216mm x 9mm x 135mm
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Weight: 135g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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To get it out of the way: these are the best books I have read this year ... They act as a manifesto for art, showing that literature is not the base metal: it is the process of alchemy, and the gold that results
John Self, New Statesman
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Intense, elegant ... Ditlevsen's portrait of Vesterbro in the Twenties has something of the same texture of Elena Ferrante's description of the poor Neapolitan neighbourhood in which her heroines grow up
Lucy Scholes, The Daily Telegraph
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I absolutely loved The Copenhagen Trilogy ... So powerful
Liz Jensen, Saturday Review
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Incredibly compelling and timely
Amber Butchard, The Saturday Review
