The Advent broom and other Christmas stories

When Ruth finds a strange structure on her doorstep - a kind of ostrich or rather a scrawny undergrowth - she immediately knows that this Advent broom is a unique message from her friend Meret. I wonder what it means? Käthi Koenig's unconventional Christmas stories also tell of the precision mechanic Arthur and his ingenious Advent constructions on the balcony railing, of two girls with "line problems" on a Christmas cruise or of a journalist who - how annoying - in a celebrity interview does not get the answers he would have wished for a Christmas hit in his newspaper. There are conflicts - and by no means always a happy ending. But the stories end the way Christmas wants them to: in reconciliation - even if often a little different than we imagined.