BOOK CLUB
THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY by Tove Ditlevsen review by Michaela Anchan
On a chilly Wednesday at the end of November last year , we had a cozy , festive Book Club gathering in Holly ’ s beautiful apartment with some freshly made eggnog to sip on . Our book for the month , The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen , was a unanimous hit with the group .
The book is a new release in her series of short memoirs originally published 1967-71 , Childhood , Youth and Dependency . In 2021 they were collected together under the new title The Copenhagen Trilogy , and its re-release has sparked a new outpouring of praise for her work . Both the New York Times and the Guardian called it a “ masterpiece ”— and our group of readers could only absolutely agree . The writing is so fresh and clear — though she was writing of her childhood and teens many years later . The language itself — sentence by sentence — is just beautiful . I read the book after reading a particularly awful crime novel , and it was like going from a piece of stale bread to eating a fine chocolate — melt-in-your-mouth perfection .
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