Vilhelm's Room

By Tove Ditlevsen

A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic Copenhagen Trilogy.

I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm . . .

The ripples from a breakup radiate outward from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts ad sets off a train of tragicomic events that leads to an inevitable conclusion. Vilhelm's Room, Tove Ditlevsen's final novel--published a year before her untimely death in 1976--is a powerful conclusion to an extraordinary life as a poet, novelist, and memoirist: a blackly funny and devastating tour de force that pulses with life even as it journeys toward death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374613494
• ISBN13: 9780374613495
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"