Passed down orally for centuries, shaping the self-understanding of an entire country, and featuring a magical love and hero story: This time, Tilman Spreckelsen and Kat Menschik have taken on the Georgian national epic and created a modern retelling accompanied by fabulous illustrations! The names of the heroes in this book sound enchanting and intriguingly foreign: Tinatin and Awthandil, Nestan-Daredjan and Tariel. Two couples whose fates intersect and influence each other in unexpected ways. The two women fall as deeply in love with the heroes as the heroes do with them, but both set conditions, and thus Awthandil and Tariel must first endure hard trials and achieve victories before they can truly win over their beloveds. The poet Shota Rustaveli wrote the verses around the year 1200, during the time when Georgia was under rule.