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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.

"Whose Jizz is this?" Sechs-u-ell: to make sense of the publication title, trust your college German and your phonetic ear. "Sexual," here, comprises the entire broad spectrum of what we associate with carnal pleasure. Lust, desire, ecstasy, repression, obsession--the world of art, fashion, and design abounds with specimens of eroticism and sexuality in their infinite variety, shopworn stereotypes be damned. Looking back on the thorough revision of society's ideas about sexuality in the past three decades, the book inquires into how the works of visual artists, fashion creatives, and designers reflect today's public debates over biological and social gender roles, power structures, and sexual violence or the fading of taboos over sexual practices. With works and designs by Walter Van Beirendonck, Monica Bonvicini, Tracey Emin, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jürgen Klauke, Peaches, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Vivienne Westwood, and many more. This book documents a grand exhibition scheduled for the past summer at the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, which had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Booker International-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with DARK SATELLITES, a collection of short stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany.

Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. The focus is on the rise and fall of one man from football hooligan to large-scale landlord and service- provider for prostitutes to, ultimately, a man persecuted by those he once trusted. But we also hear other voices: many different women who work in prostitution, their clients, small-time gangsters, an ex-jockey searching for his drug-addict daughter, a businessman from the West, a girl forced into child prostitution, a detective, a pirate radio presenter... In his most ambitious book to date, Clemens Meyer pays homage to modernist, East German and contemporary writers like Alfred Döblin, Wolfgang Hilbig and David Peace but uses his own style and almost hallucinatory techniques. Time shifts and stretches, people die and come to life again, and Meyer takes his characters seriously and challenges his readers in this dizzying eye-opening novel that also finds inspiration in the films of Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noé and David Lynch.

'All the Lights' contains stories about people who have lost out in life and in love, and about their hopes for one really big win, and the chance to make something of their lives.

Zwei Beiboote der „Fram“ sind verschwunden, nur das Dritte schwankt noch an seinen Halterungsstreben neben der Reling, schlägt gegen das Tauwerk, die Plane, die es bedeckt, flattert losgerissen im Wind wie ein großer Flügel dieser. „Teke-lee-lie!“, „Teke-lee-lie!“; ich weiß nicht, ob der Sturm für nautische Verhältnisse normal ist, weiß nicht, welche Geheimnisse uns erwarten, frage mich, ob Teile der Besatzung möglicherweise mit den fehlenden Beibooten von Bord gegangen sind, und finde dann endlich, unter Deck, in der Kabine des Kapitäns, eine Liste mit Namen: Sebastian Burger, Carolin Knoth, David O’Kane, Kristina Schuldt, Mandy Kunze, Stefan Guggisberg, Robert Seidel.