Vilhelm's Room - Penguin Modern Classics by Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (author), Sophia Hersi Smith (translator) and Jennifer Russell (translator)

The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author of The 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 padding, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm...

The ripples from a breakup radiate outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen's final novel - published in 1976 - 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 it’s end.

Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell