- Listen to Jef Aerts' new Radio Book 'Dog Rose' in English on:

www.radiobooks.eu

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.

- From 1th - 17th of July Jef Aerts was resident-writer at the National Arts Festival and the National Schools Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa.

For further information visit the website: www.nationalartsfestival.co.za

Jef Aerts' fourth novel, Rue Fontaine d’Amour (De Bezige Bij, Octobre 2008) is set in Brussels and is narrated by a girl of fifteen. It is a story of wilful love, letting go and being let go, but also touches on such metropolitan topics as migration and abuse.

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.

Read a fragment of Rue Fontaine d'Amour in English