All The Lights

Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Clemens Meyer

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Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008A 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 a 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 their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons and by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-09-07
Mått129 x 198 x 21 mm
Vikt329 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor238
FörlagAnd Other Stories
ISBN9781908276018
ÖversättareDerbyshire, Katy
UtmärkelserWinner of Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Fiction 2008

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Clemens Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle and now lives in Leipzig, both cities in what was East Germany. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker. His debut While We Were Dreaming was published in 2006. All the Lights, his second book, won the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2008, and was first published in the UK by And Other Stories in 2011. His novels Bricks and Mortar and While We Were Dreaming have both been longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

'Fifteen stories, laconic yet full of longing, from the young star of German fiction.' GQ'His tales have an evanescent, impressionistic quality... Meyer thrills and rewards.' The Guardian'The best crafted, toughest and most heart-rending stories in Germany.' Spiegel'While All the Lights appears simple, plain even, it swells and burns with complexity, subtlety and a strange kind of beauty.' Stuart Evers, author of Ten Stories about Smoking and critic