[About the translation:

‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is a story by Janneke Spoelstra from her Frisian collection of stories, In Jikse-libben (A Jiks’s life), published in 2008.
It was translated by Renée van Weringh, in collaboration with the author. Renée, who emigrated from Friesland as a child, lives in Canada. This English version will be published in four instalments in consecutive issues of ensafh. This is the last instalment]

Strawberry Fields Forever

III

‘There’s mail for you’, Rebecca said to me in the kitchen, ‘a postcard from Mario.’
I’m in Leeuwarden now, he wrote. I travelled here from Amsterdam over the Alfus(?)… Lês fierder

[About the translation:

‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is a story by Janneke Spoelstra from her Frisian collection of stories, In Jikse-libben (A Jiks’s life), published in 2008.
It was translated by Renée van Weringh, in collaboration with the author. Renée, who emigrated from Friesland as a child, lives in Canada. This English version will be published in four instalments in consecutive issues of ensafh. This is the third instalment]

Strawberry Fields Forever

II

He stood in the doorway. The racket in the kitchen stopped for a moment. They all began to shout at once.
‘Where did you leave Toni?’… Lês fierder

[About the translation:

‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is a story by Janneke Spoelstra from her Frisian collection of stories, In Jikse-libben (A Jiks’s life), published in 2008.
It was translated by Renée van Weringh, in collaboration with the author. Renée, who emigrated from Friesland as a child, lives in Canada. This English version will be published in four instalments in consecutive issues of ensafh. This is the second instalment]

Strawberry Fields Forever

2

Sunday night I was with Mario in the yard, batting a shuttlecock back and forth. It was a quiet evening. The shadows crept slowly up the hills.… Lês fierder

[About the translation:

‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is a story by Janneke Spoelstra from her Frisian

collection of stories, In Jikse-libben (A Jiks’s life), published in 2008.
It was translated by Renée van Weringh, in collaboration with the author. Renée, who emigrated from Friesland as a child, lives in Canada. This English version will be published in four instalments in consecutive issues of ensafh.]
Strawberry Fields Forever

I

‘Look,’ said the taxi driver, ‘there it is.’
At the top of the hill stood a white house with a grey barn behind it. The road curved up towards it. On the left, raspberry bushes grew in long lines up the hill.… Lês fierder