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All the Lights: Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008
Author(s): Clemens Meyer (Author)
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 238 pages
- ISBN-10: 1908276010
- ISBN-13: 9781908276018
Book Description
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 their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons and down by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘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
About the Author
Clemens Meyer is one of Germany’s most exciting writers. Born in 1977 in what was then East Germany, he worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker while completing his first novel. All the Lights is his acclaimed second book. It has sold over 40,000 copies in German and won the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2008.
