Leif Randt is a freelance writer living in Maintal and Berlin. His novels include Planet Magnon and Shimmering Haze over CobyCounty. Allegro Pastel, his fourth work, was a bestseller in Germany and nominated for the German Book Prize. A movie adaptation will appear in cinemas in fall 2025. 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.

Leif Rand depicts with stunning emotional clarity the trials millennials must go through to come to know themselves in the digital age. Allegro Pastel paints an intimate portrait of Berlin at the peak of its mythos: a place of freedom and nonconformism flickering on the threshold of becoming something else - more normalised, more serene, less exciting perhaps.