From the author of the timeless classic
Out of Africa
: five hauntingly evoked, sensuously realized stories and a novella “that belong in that special realm in which artistry is more real than reality” (
TIME
). •
Ehrengard
is Now a Netflix Film.
“Dinesen’s stories are the work of a writer with a powerful imagination and a shrewd intelligence.” —
The New York Times Book Review
In the classic “Babette’s Feast,” a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In “The Immortal Story,” a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors’ tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella
, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and rakish artist.