![]() The New York Times Book Review Kehlmann is a gifted and sensitive storyteller. A spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europes vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin Review Quotes **Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize** Brilliant and unputdownable. The result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. ![]() ![]() As a juggler and a jester, Tyll forges his own path through a world devastated by the Thirty Years War, evading witch-hunters, escaping a collapsed mine outside a besieged city, and entertaining the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia along the way. After Tyll flees with the bakers daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. ![]() Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. Book Synopsis The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020 The Guardian s Best Fiction of 2020 Thrillist s Best Books of the Year Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. ![]()
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