Der Held im Pardelfell

Passed down orally over centuries, formative for the self-image of an entire country and at the same time an enchanting love and heroic story: this time Tilman Spreckelsen and Kat Menschik have taken on the Georgian national epic and made a modernly narrated and fabulously illustrated book out of it! The names of the heroes in this book sound like fairy tales and fascinatingly foreign: Tinatin and Avthandil, Nestan-Darejan and Tariel. Two pairs of lovers whose destinies intersect in unforeseen ways. The two women fall in love with the heroes as fiercely as the heroes fall in love with them, but both impose conditions, and thus Awthandil and Tariel must first pass hard tests and win victories before they truly conquer their beloved. The poet Shota Rustaveli wrote the verses around the year 1200, when Georgia was under the rule of the kingdom.