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Højt synger Nattens Dronning is a counterfactual family novel that covers a period of more than 100 years. The counterfactual narrative form covers actual events and real people, which the author builds on and puts into her very own universe that, based on the author's own family history, takes the reader to Czarist Russia, to a gypsy family's departure from Prussia and to Skagen, just before the famous painters really settled in the small market town.

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St. Petersburg, May 1880

The Winter Palace did not live up to its name at all, as it lay there in the bright and mild May evening, shining like a three-storey giant lemon yellow layer cake. A cake that had been bitten into, because to the right of the main entrance, a hole from basement to attic marred the overall impression of rigorous order. A flimsy scaffolding was attached to the facade and some kind of renovation was apparently underway.

In a small antechamber on the first floor, Vladimir Alexandrovich stood watching the one hundred and twenty-four guests on their way to the Officers' Ball.

About the author

Finn Hviid Bredahl (b. 1953) trained as an actor at Aalborg Theatre and worked there and at the Danish Theatre and Aarhus Theatre until 1987, when he left the theater world and entered the advertising industry. In 1997 he returned to the stage as an actor at Aalborg Theater, Jomfru Ane and Jako Bole Teatret. In 2003, together with fellow actor Susanne Sangill, he founded the regional theater Himmerlands Teater in Hobro, where he served as admin. theater manager, actor, translator and playwright until 2014, when he had to stop his theater work due to a visual impairment.

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Description

Højt synger Nattens Dronning is a counterfactual family novel that covers a period of more than 100 years. The counterfactual narrative form covers actual events and real people, which the author builds on and puts into her very own universe that, based on the author's own family history, takes the reader to Czarist Russia, to a gypsy family's departure from Prussia and to Skagen, just before the famous painters really settled in the small market town.

Excerpt from the book
St. Petersburg, May 1880
The Winter Palace did not live up to its name at all, as it lay there in the bright and mild May evening, shining like a three-storey giant lemon yellow layer cake. A cake that had been bitten into, because to the right of the main entrance, a hole from basement to attic marred the overall impression of rigorous order. A flimsy scaffolding was attached to the facade and some kind of renovation was apparently underway.
In a small antechamber on the first floor, Vladimir Alexandrovich stood watching the one hundred and twenty-four guests on their way to the Officers' Ball.

About the author
Finn Hviid Bredahl (b. 1953) trained as an actor at Aalborg Theatre and worked there and at the Danish Theatre and Aarhus Theatre until 1987, when he left the theater world and entered the advertising industry. In 1997 he returned to the stage as an actor at Aalborg Theater, Jomfru Ane and Jako Bole Teatret. In 2003, together with fellow actor Susanne Sangill, he founded the regional theater Himmerlands Teater in Hobro, where he served as admin. theater manager, actor, translator and playwright until 2014, when he had to stop his theater work due to a visual impairment.

Hi! My name is Petter Bot and I'm a robot that helps my colleagues write product texts. I'm getting better at English every day. If I have written something wrong, we apologize.