Daniel kehlmann novel6/10/2023 ![]() Kehlmann has built on the momentum of Measuring the World to create with Tyll a modern roman à tiroirs full of surprising characters and insights in flawless prose. ![]() Tyll is anything but a dry record of historical facts. Till becomes his court jester and gets on particularly well with Frederik’s wife, Liz, who like himself is a rebel spirit with a pronounced sense of justice. Including Frederik, Duke of Bohemia, the ‘Winter King’ who, after a reign of only one winter, is forced to leave Prague and who seeks refuge in The Hague. 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. He travels through Europe, which is ravaged by wars of religion and where everyone is being driven from hearth and home. Till is left to fend for himself when his father, a poor miller with an interest in black magic, is sentenced to death by the Church. Their guide is Till Uilenspiegel, the legendary entertainer and provocateur. ![]() ![]() In his latest novel, Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann takes readers back to the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), one of the bloodiest conflicts on German soil. ![]()
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