While We Were DreamingLonglisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. Rico, Mark, Paul, and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting, running away from their fears, their parents, and the future, fighting to exist, killing time. They drink, steal cars, feel wrecked, play it cool,