The Boxer

Reinhard Kleist has come across a fantastic story: In Nazi occupied Poland, Hertzko Haft, son of a Jewish family, is separated from his family and fiancée and deported to the concentration camp. There he literally fights for his life when one of the SS Officers stages box fights for his entertainment. Hertzko survives , moves to the US and becomes a professional boxer in American fight clubs, which gained increased popularity during the fifties. At the age of only 22 he even gets to fight against Rocky Marciano. And is always on the lookout for his lost love and fiancée... An epic love story as well as a moving story of survival framed by the common theme of boxing this book will raise massive attention and is pre-published in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine. Reinhard Kleist (*1970) has written a number of highly successful graphic novels, amongst them the bestselling and award-winning biographies Cash- I see a darkness (Carlsen, 2006), Castro (Carlsen, 2010) and a portrait of the Cuban capital, Havanna (Carlsen, 2008).