Allegro Pastel (Paperback or Softback)

A new title in the Granta Magazine Editions series: a vivid, ironic and blisteringly contemporary account of millennial love in Frankfurt and Berlin.

Allegro Pastel follows a cult author and a web designer as they live and love in contemporary Berlin.

Tanja and Jerome are navigating a long-distance relationship in a world of constant communication and emotional hyper-reflection. Whether they're WhatsApping one another from drug-fueled dance parties or sending ambiguous emojis on a trip to Decathlon, every gesture is controlled and self-aware. This is love in the post-therapeutic age, set against the backdrop of a rapidly heating climate.

Written with crackling insight, dry humor, and deep emotional intelligence, Allegro Pastel proclaims Leif Randt as the premiere German stylist of his generation.

Granta Magazine Editions is a paperback original series of exceptional literary voices published by Granta magazine.

Leif Randt is a freelance writer living in Maintal and Berlin. His novels include Leuchtspielhaus and Planet Magnon. Allegro Pastel, his fourth work, was nominated for the German Book Prize. He has co-curated the online platform Tegel Media since 2017.

Peter Kuras is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He has written about politics and culture for the Economist, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian and Der Freitag.