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“clemens meyer”

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  • While We Were Dreaming

    by Clemens Meyer ...
    Translated by Katy Derbyshire ...
    Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting, running away from their fears, their parents and the future, fighting to exist, killing time. They drink, steal cars, feel wrecked, play it cool, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Satellites

    by Clemens Meyer ...
    Translated by Katy Derbyshire ...
    International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with Dark Satellites, a striking collection of stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany. A train driver's life is upended when he hits a laughing man on the tracks on his night shift; a lonely train cleaner makes friends with a hairdresser in the train station bar; and a young man, unable to return to his home after a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bricks and Mortar

    by Clemens Meyer ...
    Translated by Katy Derbyshire ...
    Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise and fall of one man from football hooligan to large-scale landlord and service-provider for prostitutes to, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Lights

    by Clemens Meyer ...
    A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future together... Stories about people who have lost out in life and in love, and about their hopes for one really big win, the chance to make something of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Blue Night

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