Childhood: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 1
Childhood: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 1 The celebrated Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen begins the Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" --The Guardian) with Childhood, her coming-of-age memoir about…
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Childhood: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 1
The celebrated Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen begins the Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" --The Guardian) with Childhood, her coming-of-age memoir about pursuing a life and a passion beyond the confines of her upbringing--and into the difficult years described in Youth and DependencyTove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets.
For "long, mysterious words begin to crawl across" her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her--and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.Childhood, the first