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The faces / Tove Ditlevsen ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241391914 (paperback)
Classification	F DITL
Personal Name	Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit, 1917-1976
Uniform Title	Ansigterne.
Title	The faces / Tove Ditlevsen ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Production & Copyright Details	[London] : Penguin Books, 2020.
Production & Copyright Details	©1991
Physical Description	129 pages ; 20 cm
Content type	text
Series	Penguin modern classics
Note	First published as Ansigterne in Denmark 1968. This translation first published in the United States of America by Fjord Press 1991.
Note	Translated from the Danish.
Summary Note	It's 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 institutionalisation. 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.
Subject - Topical Term	Mental illness -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	Copenhagen (Denmark) -- Fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name	Nunnally, Tiina, 1952- translator.