Youth

<p><b>The acclaimed Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy</b> <b>("A masterpiece"</b> <b>&#8212;<i>The Guardian</i>) </b><b>continues with <i>Youth</i>. Following <i>Childhood</i>, this second volume finds the young author consumed in trials by fire that only fuel her relentless passion for artistic freedom&#8212;placing her on a devastating and destructive path recounted in the final volume, <i>Dependency</i>.</b><br>Forced to leave school early, Tove embarks on a checkered career in a string of low-paid, menial jobs. But she is hungry: for poetry, for love, for real life to begin. As Europe slides into war, she must navigate exploitative bosses, a Nazi landlady, and unwelcome sexual encounters on the road to hard-won independence. Yet she remains ruthlessly determined in the pursuit of her poetic vocation&#8212;until at last the miracle she has always dreamed of appears to be within reach.<br><i>Youth</i>, the second volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a strikingly honest and immersive portrait of adolescence, filled with biting humor, vulnerability, and poeticism.</p>