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FOREIGN
HANSER
RIGHTS
Martin Grzimek
Tristan
Roman um Liebe, Treue und Verrat
Tristan
A novel about loyalty, love and betrayal
910 pages. Hardcover.
From age 14 and for all ages
Publication date: September 2011
YOUNG ADULT’S FICTION
Tristan is one of the most famous legends of the Middle Ages and a truly wonderful
story – Martin Grzimek’s inspired novel makes it come alive on the page in all
its magic.
As a child, the only way for him to survive is if no-one knows his true identity, apart from a
trusted few. As a young man he travels the length and breadth of the western world on adventurous
routes. He fights life-or-death tournaments, defeats a dragon, and gets caught up
in the turbulent power struggle of two enemy empires – all without suspecting that he is the
potential heir to one of them. When he falls in love, it ends in tragedy: the lovers are separated
and Tristan is banished from the court of the king whom he was supposed to succeed.
All this and much more makes up the legend of Tristan – a story that holds up a magic mirror
to an entire era. Martin Grzimek brings the Middle Ages alive in all its sparkling colours,
a time which is unjustly called the dark ages –its splendour shines all the way through to the
present times. Not for nothing are Tristan and Isolde a symbol of great, all-consuming love
to this very day.
Martin Grzimek
born in 1950, is a full-time author living near Heidelberg. Hanser’s literary arm has published
many of his novels, and its children’s book department has published his stories about
a bear’s adventures, Rudi – Ein tolles Bärenleben (2006), amongst others.