num_pages: 153
description: 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.
language: English
title: Faces
titlecomplete: Faces
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Danish, Mental Health, Fiction, Denmark, Contemporary, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 2997
publisher: Fjord Pr