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- Listen to Jef Aerts' new Radio Book 'Dog Rose' in English on the website of deBuren, Brussels:
http://www.radiobooks.eu/author.php?id=110&lang=EN
Radio Books are stories by Dutch and Flemish authors written and read aloud on commission to deBuren in Brussels. They are new stories which have been specially written to be listened to and not to appear in print. In addition, Radio Books are broadcast on the radio and distributed via the internet, where they can be listened to or downloaded free of charge.
- Read the first pages of Aerts' fourth novel, Rue Fontaine d’Amour (De Bezige Bij, Octobre 2008).
Rue Fontaine d'Amour in English
Brussels. Fifteen year old Lize is sitting on the roof of a terraced house in the Rue Fontaine d’Amour and looking out over the city. This is where she begins to tell the story. Of Lena, the sister two years her senior who ran away from home. Of her professor father who knows the complete diaries of the Russian ballet dancer Nijinsky by heart. And then there are the two Albanians who come to visit every day. Lize thinks they are repulsive, but her father says they are angels. And they have an important assignment for him.
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