"Take the bare prose of Raymond Carver, apply the bleak outlook of Michel Houellebecq, place characters from an Irvine Welsh book on German streets, and you have something close to this collection of 15 short stories. His tales have an evanescent, impressionistic quality. Meyer thrills and rewards." --Alex Rayner, The Guardian "Stories of brilliance." --Chris Power, The Guardian "What Meyer manages to achieve leaves you speechless. These stories glow in the world's darkness." -- Die Welt "Clemens Meyer writes the best crafted, toughest and most heart-rending stories in Germany." -- Spiegel "Meyer tells us about people who normally are not 'literary subject matter' [.

] Respect to him. He's the real deal. We need storytellers like him." -- Die Zeit.