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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 upbringingand into the difficult years described in Youth and Dependency

Tove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For long, mysterious words begin to crawl across her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within herand that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.

Childhood, the first volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with ly

Childhood The Copenhagen Trilogy Book 1

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    A Paperback / softback by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally

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      Publisher: Fsg Originals
      Publication Date: 26/01/2021
      ISBN13: 9780374722937, 978-0374722937
      ISBN10: 0374722935
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 upbringingand into the difficult years described in Youth and Dependency

      Tove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For long, mysterious words begin to crawl across her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within herand that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.

      Childhood, the first volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with ly

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