Tales from the night
A train driver who loves night shifts until a laughing man stands on the tracks. A night watchman patroling outside a home for immigrants who falls in love with a woman behind the fence. A burger-bar owner looking out at the city’s shining satellites. Masterfully, trancelike and with the confidence of a sleepwalker, Clemens Meyer’s stories tell of lost battles and overwhelming wishes. They are stories from our time, as dark as the world, as beautiful as the brightest of hopes.
Like no other writer of his generation, [...] Meyer [...] transformed the upheavals in East Germany into great literature. - LiteraturSPIEGEL
I am a great fan of Clemens Meyer [...] I consider him one of the very great German authors. -- Ulrich Wickert - Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Delicacy and hardness: no German author currently dances this tango as smoothly as Clemens Meyer (...) an enchanting collection of stories [...] an artistic event. - Die Zeit
A narrator like no other - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Meyer is a master of the short distance. [...] Stories in the classic Hemingway sense; they are cleverly composed and get by without one word too many. - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
