Clemens Meyer 
Dark Satellites 

International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with Dark Satellites, a striking collection of stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany. A train driver’s life is upended when he hits a laughing man on the tracks on his night shift; a lonely train cleaner makes friends with a hairdresser in the train station bar; and a young man, unable to return to his home after a break-in, wanders the city in a state of increasing unrest. From the home to places of work, Meyer transforms the territories of our everyday lives into sites of rupture and connection. Unsentimental and yet deeply moving,  Dark Satellites is a collection of stories from our time, as dark as the world, as beautiful as the brightest of hopes.

About the author

 Katy Derbyshire, originally from London, has lived in Berlin for over twenty years. She translates contemporary German writers including Inka Parei, Heike Geissler, Olga Grjasnowa, Annett Gröschner and Christa Wolf. Her translation of Clemens Meyer’s  Bricks and Mortar  was the winner of the 2018 Straelener Übersetzerpreis (Straelen Prize for Translation),   longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, and shortlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards.  She occasionally teaches translation and also co-hosts a monthly translation lab and the bi-monthly Dead Ladies Show.