I always peek into baby buggies when I walk home, because I love to look at the little children who are lying asleep with upstretched hands on a ruffled pillowcase. I also like to look at people who in one way or another give expression to their feelings. I like to look at mothers caressing their children, and I willingly go a little out of my way in order to follow a young couple who are walking hand in hand and are openly in love. It gives me a wistful feeling of happiness and an indefinable hope for the future.
— Tove Ditlevsen, Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy (FSG Originals, January 26, 2021)
Highly Recommended. And the trilogy has been recommended as a Best Book of the Year in 2021.
- 2021 NPR Best Book of the Year
- 2021 The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
- The Guardian: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen review – confessions of a literary outsider. Called “a masterpiece” by The Guardian, this courageous and honest trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing, explores themes of family, sex, motherhood, abortion, addiction, and being an artist. This program contains all three volumes of her memoirs.
