Publisher's Synopsis
Where have all the ravers gone? Richard Foster presents a batch of psychedelicized, autofictive fairy tales from the Netherlands. The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club introduces a diverse cast of voices who narrate eight short stories dealing with the major social changes that country underwent during the mid-noughties. We learn of the upheavals brought on by the Euro and the influx of Polish workers alongside the slow disappearance of the British and Irish worker-raver tribes post-Schengen, all set against a backdrop of rising costs, political murders and foreign wars. Like Foster's debut, Flower Factory, The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club is set in the Dutch Bollenstreek: an agro-industrial district that is always changing, but somehow manages to stay exactly the same.
