ARGONAUT BOOKS

Winner of the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair PrizeA 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. Clemens Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark. Reviews '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 ev...Read More