num_pages: 99
description: The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love friendship ambition and addiction from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writersTove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen she is enthralled by her wild red-headed friend Ruth who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For 'long mysterious words begin to crawl across my soul' and she comes to realize that she has a vocation something unknowable within her - and that she must one day painfully but inevitably leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.Childhood the first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship told with lyricism and vivid intensity.
language: English
title: Childhood
publisher: Penguin Classics