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Lists with This Book. R4 Sat Mars A collection of stories dealing with death and bereavement 1. Now in his eightieth year, Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland's leading and most respected authors, a writer of both novels and travel books and a consummate short story writer. The Foxes Come at Night, his recent collection, has won the Gouden Uil - the most prestigious literary award in Flanders and is now published in English. The collection is se R4 Sat Mars The collection is set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, territory Nooteboom knows well.

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The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review. A meditation on the end of things from one of our most remarkable writers. Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on .

The stories are linked by their meditations on memory and age, on love won and lost and on the fragments of life treasured in a photograph or a detail. In 'Gondolas' a fine art dealer finds the past stirred by a photograph taken on the same Venetian canal bank forty years ago. In 'Thunderstorm' a couple's own fissures are reflected in a horrific moment on a beach.

And in 'Late September' a woman waits on a windblown Spanish cafe terrace before the inevitable conclusion to her lonely day.

The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review

Written with haunting attention to detail and pitch perfect prose, sensitively translated by Ina Rilke, these stories show one of the European masters of the genre at his best. View all 3 comments. Overview Listen Later Following. Wed 17 Jun BBC Radio 4 Extra. More episodes Previous You are at the first episode.

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