Mærkedage

The story moves through three parties: a confirmation in 1934, a silver wedding in 1967 and a sixtieth birthday in 2003, held in the village hall of Staun for as long as it stands, and then, when everything else has changed too, in a large hotel. Through them it follows the two families on the farms of Bisgaard and Kristiansminde and many of their guests. Old Søren Godiksen sees all he believed in come to nothing; the adopted son Axel ends up owning most of the village; the wild sisters Emma and Mary find ways out of fixed women's roles; their brother Peder and his cousin Ellen go out into the wider world. By the last party a new generation is at home in the consumer society, and the peasant culture has dissolved.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

408 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, 1934–2003

First published

2007 by Gyldendal

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788702058062 (original)

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