All the Lights

Winner of the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair Prize

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 people who have lost out in life and in love, and about their hopes for one really big win, the chance to make something of their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons and by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark.

About the author

Clemens Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle and now lives in Leipzig, both cities in what was East Germany. All the Lights won the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2008, and was first published in the UK by And Other Stories in 2011. He has been twice longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Clemens Meyer, Meyer Clemens
• Assisted by: Evers Stuart (Introduction), Katy Derbyshire (Translation), Derbyshire Katy (Translation)
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781916751309
• ISBN: 978-1-916751-30-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Political, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, East Germany, c 1990 to c 1999