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The Copenhagen Trilogy

Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman, Tove Ditlevsen

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1967
Originally in
Originally in Danish
Pages
Pages 370

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, Tove Ditlevsen writes, and you can't get out of it on your own. She grew up in a Vesterbro tenement in working-class Copenhagen, a girl who wanted only to be a poet, an ambition so absurd for someone of her class that she kept her poems hidden in a secret album.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman, Tove Ditlevsen

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