Riber ret

Following an earlier volume of memoirs, the author returns to his upper-secondary years in Ribe in the 1960s. The school was no great centre of learning, its teachers were uneven, and the social gaps between pupils were plain to see. His own family was among the less well off, and he was one of those nobody reckoned with. Then he fell for the daughter of the stiftamtmand, the Crown's chief official in the town, and she loved him back, giving the townspeople something else to talk about. The book is at once a story of young love and a record of a recent stretch of Danish history.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

214 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, 1960s

First published

2001 by Gyldendal

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9788702014754 (original)