The Fox Will Come Tonight

A rural world in transformation, portrayed with emotion and humor, beyond clichés. 

Proud, wounded, daring, or in love, the characters of Tonight the Fox Will Pass live trapped between desire and a reality they find unsatisfying. The rebellion of a farmer fed up with car races, the romantic setback of a fiercely determined young woman, a bookseller’s peculiar strategy against theft, the sudden weakness of a swaggering businessman, and the humiliation of a child forced to go from house to house with a fox pelt hanging from his shoulder are just some of the stories that bring to life a changing rural world—one the author depicts with a humor that tears apart the familiar, sentimental image we often have of it. 

As Ponç Puigdevall wrote in Quadern, “in novelists belonging to the lineage of William Faulkner, such as Antoni Pladevall, form appears so clearly within the narrative that it acts as yet another character.”