Bricks and Mortar (eBook)

Clemens Meyer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
672 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-910695-20-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 this ambitious novel, 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.

Autor

Clemens Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle and lives in Leipzig. Bricks and Mortar, his first novel to be published in English by Fitzcarraldo Editions, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize, awarded the Bremer Literaturpreis 2014, longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, and shortlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2016
• Übersetzer: Katy Derbyshire
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1989 • Alfred Döblin • A. L. Kennedy • ambitious fiction • avant-garde fiction • Berlin Alexanderplatz • Berlin Wall • Booker International • Bricks and Mortar • Bricks and Mortar, Clemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire, GDR, German fiction, German literature, novel, translated fiction, literature in translation, Booker International, modernism, Alfred Döblin, Wolfgang Hilbig, David Peace, Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noé, David Lynch, Chris Petit, A. L. Kennedy, Joshua Cohen, sex trade, prostitute, pimps, gangsters, noir, noir fiction, gambling, brothels, film noir, drugs, guns, pirate radio, Roberto Bolaño, Louis-Ferdinan Céline, novel about prostitution, prostitutio • brothels • Chris Petit • Clemens Meyer • communism • Contemporary fiction • contemporary German fiction • Crime Fiction • David Lynch • David Peace • Drugs • East German Literature • East Germany • experimental fiction • fall of the Berlin Wall • Film noir • Gambling • Gangsters • Gaspar Noé • GDR • German fiction • German Literature • German Novel • Germany • Guns • Joshua Cohen • Katy Derbyshire • legalization of prostitition • Leipzig • literature in translation • Louis-Ferdinan Céline • modernism • Noir • noir cinema • noir fiction • Novel • novel about prostitution • Ostalgie • pimps • Pirate Radio • polyphonic novel • Post-Modernism • Prostitute • Prostitution • RDA • Reunification • Roberto Bolaño • Russ Meyer • sex industry • Sex trade • Takashi Miike • translated fiction • Underworld • Wolfgang Hilbig
• ISBN-10: 1-910695-20-3 / 1910695203
• ISBN-13: 978-1-910695-20-3 / 9781910695203