Anecdotes of Destiny
It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in �Tempests�, a mysterious pearl-fisher in �The Diver� and a brief, tragic encounter in �The Ring�. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.