The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen Paperback Book 9780241391914

One of Denmarks most celebrated writers New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy a searing haunting novel of a woman on the edge portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience Copenhagen 1968 Lise a childrens book writer and married mother of three is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices She is convinced that her husband already extravagantly unfaithful will leave her Most of all she is scared that she will never write again Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals she begins to wonder is insanity really something to be feared or does it bring a kind of freedomDitlevsen explores the surprising contours of Lises experience from her point of view madness can be funny soft and secure and far more enlightening than the quotrealityquot it struggles to evade The New York TimesTranslated by Tiina Nunnally