978-3-86638-390-6

52.00 €           

978-3-86638-392-0

28.00 €           

978-3-86638-391-3

28.00 €           

Novel

• Hardcover
• With dust jacket
• and Ribbon
• 280 pages
• Cover painting Lukas Bugla
• With extracts on Youtube

978-3-86638-251-0

20.00 €           

A dubious Nazi squad is on the move in Palermo, the brown henchmen are to loot the tomb of Frederick II in the cathedral. One, who knows a lot about the life and death of the Staufer emperor, has been blackmailed into supporting the cultural theft—his sweetheart is interned in Ravensbrück and will only be released from the concentration camp if the grave treasure is kidnapped. While the unfree companion of the glommy expedition tries to rescue his beloved from brown Germany, the story of another lover blows at him, which can be as little true as his own experiences and tribulations: it is the story of a hunter and falconer from the time of the Staufer emperor, who wants to free his lady from the clutches of a powerful intringue.

»And what is to happen next?« you ask me. The answer to this can only be incomplete for the time being and yet also contains certainties that give reason for confidence: You will leave for Switzerland, dearest, for Lucerne, to be exact, where you will be safe from them. They shall then immediately get their orphan, who, be it said, is here in Palermo. I will explain everything else later. Do not worry. I know it: the mouse must meet the snake only with wisdom.

With his debut »LKW« (»Van«) in 2010, Ernst Kretschmer succeeded in writing a fabulously novel rich in characters. Its arabesque side stories and astonishing narrative whirlpools also characterize his new book, which contrasts the angels of death of the 1940s with those of the 13th century with great lovers.

novel

• 488 pages
• Series Label (Reihe ETIKETT)
• Hardcover with ribbon pagemarker

978-3-86638-153-7

22.00 €           

The novel »LKW« tells the story of a young men called Karl Krüger, who has worked for many years as a truck driver for building companies,  furnitures and unit load transport between Germany, France and Italy. Through his work he has experienced a lot, has aged and matured and now he is going on his last drive to Mailand. Because he has fallen in love with an italian women... On this drive Karl recalls awild, but also poetic, rich life on the streets and passes of Europ An arc of suspence evolves perticularly  after he has realised: there is a frontpassager, who calls himselfe  »Kiepenkerl«and whos feed have a striking reseamblens to goats feet, like mephistopheles. In Karl’s childhood he signified disaster in his life, but now he offers him advise and help to arrange his momories: while the villages duck into the basins, the lights move together and send smoke signals in the sky, the Kiepenkerl conveys the driver Karl a manifestation: »In the mind of the driver«, he says: «interlock beginning and ending. In departing he always forshadows his arrival and hence calls the time at his side...the time... is a delightful creature. Empathetic and cuddly, she is prepared to devote herself. She wants yet to be charmed and flattered, otherwise she turns cold.«

Parallel to the lovestory  the extent of the narration unfold the big drive into a european Tournee and back to a barbarian migration. Revenants of the maincharacter pulled through by  the southern nobility and northern working traditions , it develops into a drive back into the lovestory, as old as the continent. The quest with pannier and fruit transporter, from the five year old to the fifty year old driver, also visits, through memories, the USA, conjures with the epics of America a desire for a modern Edda – and spins their entry.