{"product_id":"the-faces-by-tove-ditlevsen-9780241391914","title":"The Faces","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew to Penguin Modern Classics, a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eCopenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopenhagen, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrief, intense, and haunting, Ditlevsen's novel recreates the experience of madness from the inside, with all the vividness of lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46250112221420,"sku":"9780241391914","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241391914.jpg?v=1741560061","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-faces-by-tove-ditlevsen-9780241391914","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}