A father mourns his son on Christmas Eve.
Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, '20220123', '20220207', '20220304' from 12; John Tavener, The Protecting Veil (I) (performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)

A father mourns his son on Christmas Eve. Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, '20220123', '20220207', '20220304' from 12; John Tavener, The Protecting Veil (I) (performed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)

#32: 'Christmas' by Vladimir Nabokov

Short stories, with music and sound effects.

"There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

Fiction

Short stories, with music and sound effects. "There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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#32: 'Christmas' by Vladimir Nabokov

#32: 'Christmas' by Vladimir Nabokov