Vilhelm's Room: A Novel

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Book Info and Format
- Author
- Tove Ditlevsen
- Translator
- Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russel
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Category
- Fiction
- Format
- EPUB
- File Size
- 4.1 MB
- Year
- 2026
- Pages
- 137
- Language
- English
Category: Fiction
Tags: family life, fiction, literature
About The Book
**A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic *Copenhagen Trilogy*.
***I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm . . .
* The ripples from a breakup radiate outward from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts ad sets off a train of tragicomic events that leads to an inevitable conclusion. *Vilhelm's Room* , Tove Ditlevsen's final novel--published a year before her untimely death in 1976--is a powerful conclusion to an extraordinary life as a poet, novelist, and memoirist: a blackly funny and devastating tour de force that pulses with life even as it journeys toward death.
- Format: EPUB
- Print Length: 137 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780374613501
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 11, 2026)
- Language: English