Book in: English
By: Meik Wiking
Penguin Life 2016
Pages: 288
Synopsis:
Meik Wiking runs the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen — a real institution — and this is his attempt to explain the Danish word English has no equivalent for. Hygge is the quality of a room with candles in it, of a slow evening with people you like, of thick socks and something on the stove: a deliberate, unglamorous comfort that Danes treat as a national competence rather than a mood. Wiking covers the lighting, the food, the clothes and the company, folds in survey data from his institute, and keeps it short. The book that started the entire hygge shelf. English text, 288 pages.
