The Faces

Author: Tove Ditlevsen

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780241391914
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  • : November 2020
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  • : Tove Ditlevsen
  • : Paperback
  • : 2011
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780241391914
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Description

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself lead to enlightenment?


Brief, intense and haunting, Ditlevsen's novel recreates the experience of madness from the inside, with all the vividness of lived experience.