The Foxes Come at Night - Cees Nooteboom; Ina Rilke (Paperback) 04-07-2013 Winner of Gouden Uil Literatuurprijs (Golden Owl Literature Prize) 2010.
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 memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of.