Road Trip With Elephants

  • An extraordinary road movie novel: by taxi from Berlin to Capri
  • Fast-paced, funny and profoundly told
  • Filiz Penzkofer received the prestigious Kranichsteiner Literature Scholarship in 2025 for her debut novel 

Eni has had enough: her best friend Luke is going on holiday with his new girlfriend, even though they had planned to fight together for a fairer future! Eni will have to do it alone. So she steals an antique statue from Luke's rich uncle to return it to where it belongs: the Etruscan tomb in southern Italy. At a petrol station, Eni meets 96-year-old Wilhelmina, who also has a mission: to travel to Capri one last time and watch the sunset. Since her husband's death, she has been taking a taxi to the south every year. Wilhelmina would be the last person on earth to pick up a hitchhiker – if it weren't for Eni's orange coat, which reminds Wilhelmina of her past...
A sensitive coming-of-age novel about an unusual friendship between two protagonists who couldn't be more different, yet are brought together by fate.

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  • Publisher: Rotfuchs
  • Release: 11.03.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-7571-0230-2
  • 264 Pages
  • Author: Filiz Penzkofer
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Filiz Penzkofer

Filiz Penzkofer , born in Munich in 1985, studied German, communication sciences and Turkology in Bamberg and Ankara. She lives in Berlin, where she works as a freelance author and journalist. Before that, she was a radio columnist on Bayerischer Rundfunk for many years, led theatre courses for children, shot films with young people and taught German.

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