Awards
- Short-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2023
Overview
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, fighting to exist, killing time. They drink, steal cars, feel wrecked, play it cool, longing for real love and true freedom. Startlingly raw and deeply moving, While We Were Dreaming is an extraordinary coming of age novel by one of Germany's most ambitious writers, full of passion, rage, hope and despair.
Full Product Details
Author: Clemens Meyer ,
Katy Derbyshire
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN: 9781804270288
ISBN 10: 1804270288
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 30 March 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
'A book like a fist... German literature has not seen such a debut for a long time, a book full of rage, sadness, pathos and superstition.' - Felicitas von Lovenberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ''[Meyer's] stripped-back prose is suffused with meaning.' - The Arts Desk '[Meyer] is one of the strongest German writers.' - Heinrich Oemsen, Hamburger Abendblatt 'Clemens Meyer's great art of describing people takes the form of the Russian doll principle: a story within a story within a story. ... So much is so artfully interwoven that his work breaks the mould of the closed narrative.' - Katharina Teutsch, Die Zeit
''[Meyer's] stripped-back prose is suffused with meaning.' - The Arts Desk '[Meyer] is one of the strongest German writers.' - Heinrich Oemsen, Hamburger Abendblatt 'Clemens Meyer's great art of describing people takes the form of the Russian doll principle: a story within a story within a story. ... So much is so artfully interwoven that his work breaks the mould of the closed narrative.' - Katharina Teutsch, Die Zeit
Author Information
Clemens Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle and lives in Leipzig. Bricks and Mortar, his first novel to be published in English by Fitzcarraldo Editions, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize, awarded the Bremer Literaturpreis 2014, longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, and shortlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards. His collection of stories, Dark Satellites, appeared with Fitzcarraldo Editions in Katy Derbyshire's translation in 2020. While We Were Dreaming (Als wir traumten), Meyer's debut novel, was originally published in Germany in 2007.
