# Vilhelm's Room

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- Book: [Vilhelm's Room](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen/vilhelms-room) ([Vilhelm's Room.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen/vilhelms-room.md))
- Authors: [Tove Ditlevsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Rose Ann Russell
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-216-8
- Published: 2025-09-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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 outwards from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts advert sets off a train of tragicomic events that lead to an inevitable conclusion. Tove Ditlevsen’s final novel – published a year before her suicide in 1976 – is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death.