Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2022
On Sale: April 19, 2022
192 pages ISBN: 0374605602 EAN: 9780374605605 Kindle: B093FBD8JX Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly understanding what that might mean.
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