# Youth

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- Authors: [Tove Ditlevsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/tove-ditlevsen)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-09-05

## Description

Unable to stay on to high school, Tove starts her first job (which lasts only one day) and soon embarks on a varied and chequered career: as au pair, cleaner, stock-room assistant and office worker. But Tove is hungry, for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As she navigates exploitative bosses, uninspiring boyfriends and a Nazi landlady, she struggles to keep her poetic vocation in sight - until she finally realizes the 'miracle' that she has always dreamed of. The second volume in Ditlvesen's autobiographical trilogy, Youth is a sensitive, often funny and almost painfully truthful portrayal of adolescence.

## Editions

### Youth

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4140-556-7
- Published: 2019-09-05
- Language: en_GB