While We Were Dreaming

“Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming is about a group of boys who are friends in Leipzig in the mid-to-late 80s under socialism. As the system collapses, many things go wrong for them. It’s about friendship, and violence, and techno, and being let loose on a city in which the structure has disappeared.” Read more...

The Best 21st-Century German Novels

Katy Derbyshire, Translator