VILHELMS ROOM

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 Ditlevsen s 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