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Hans Werner Kettenbach | Davids Rache | English Title: David's Revenge<br>Novel, 304 Pages

Novel, Paperback
304 Pages
Published in Feb. 2007

ISBN 978-3-257-22858-8
€ (D) 9.90 / (A) 10.20
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Hans Werner Kettenbach
Davids Rache

English Title: David's Revenge

He had ticked his educational trip through beautiful Georgia off his list a long time ago. And also the hospitality offered by David Ninoschwili and his attractive partner, Matassi, who, however, had proved herself to be exceptionally obliging. He seems to remember that he had only just avoided great danger at that time. He, i.e. the committed senior teacher, Christian Kestner, happily married to a successful lawyer, the not so happy father of a son who recently has been fraternising with extreme right wing circles. The past catches up with Kestner seven years later: In the meantime there is civil war in Georgia and Ninoschwili announces his arrival in the West. Where will he live? According to the rules of Georgian hospitality with the person that he had put up in his home at an earlier date: Kestner. The family’s reaction is one of open rejection. Kestner assures them it will only be for two, three weeks - and is completely mistaken. Their Georgian guest takes up mysterious activities and develops a great liking for Kestner’s wife. The senior teacher’s vivid imagination is triggered off, he begins to shadow the foreigner and to plot and scheme against him ...

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»Wonderfully terrifying novel from one of Europe’s leading noir writers.«Le Monde

»While writers as far back as Poe have crafted crime stories centered on a narrator with a guilty conscience, few have done so as subtly as Kettenbach in this novel of psychological suspense.«Publishers Weekly

»Reading Kettenbach means taking a look into the individual’s soul laid bare: into its abyss and its hopeless entanglements. Those who read his books will gain a better understanding of why human beings do the things they do, even the most absurd and horrendous things. The result are stories told along the razor-sharp edge of reality. This is what raises his books far above the usual murder mystery genre.«Der Spiegel

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