Clemens Meyer

Winner, Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008 A man bets all he has on a horse race 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...

Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, spanning from just before 1989 to the present day. It charts the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The narrative centres on the rise and fall of one man,...

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. 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,...