In his eighties now, Durk van der Ploeg shows little evidence that he’s losing his literary touch. His latest, De lêste floed (The last flood), brings the reader back to familiar Van der Ploeg territory, where the windswept, forsaken area near Friesland’s northern seashore often serves as an apt metaphor for its isolated settlers waging an ongoing struggle for survival.

Lês fierder by World Literature Today