Kranes konditori : interiør med figurer

by Cora Sandel

Paper Book, 1959

Status

Available

Call number

839.82

Library's review

Hele historien foregår i et konditori. Første billede er optakten.

???

Publication

Hans Reitzel, 1959. Hans Reitzels serie

User reviews

LibraryThing member starbox
Although this is a novel, it feels more like a play. In two "Scenes" the author is transported to a cafe in a small town in N Norway, in the (1920s?)
Owner Mrs Krane must manage while her husband's away, assisted by a couple of waitresses. And as a "situation" begins to develop between her
Show More
"regulars", she and the staff listen in with increasing horror.....
Separated dressmaker, Katinks Stordal, seems to have abandoned her work (and her two teens) to the demon drink....the local ladies are becoming frantic for their unfinished ballgowns...and she falls in with a disreputable, lonely harbour hand...in Mrs Krane's parlour!
Meanwhile her ex husband drops in...and various others who have more linking them together than we at first dreamed.
You feel a kind of Greek chorusof sententious old gossips is looking on and passing comment throughout.
Put me much in mind of an Ibsen play- a (just slightly) implausible plotline, but strong on characters and action.
Show Less

Language

Original language

Norwegian

Original publication date

1945

Physical description

126 p.; 19.8 cm

Local notes

Omslag: Preben Zahle
Omslaget viser en mand ved et bord i et konditori. Han kigger på en kvinde ved et andet bord.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra norsk "Kranes konditori" af Peder Hesselaa
Hans Reitzels serie, bind 18
Side 6: De har deres, som de skal have dækket til, ligesom kattene. Ja, fy.

Pages

126

Library's rating

Rating

½ (6 ratings; 3.8)

DDC/MDS

839.82
Page: 0.3704 seconds