Tyll: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann (English) Paperback Book

Description: Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020 The Guardians Best Fiction of 2020Thrillists Best Books of the YearDaniel 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. 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. After Tyll flees with the bakers daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. 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. 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. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography DANIEL KEHLMANNs works have won the Candide Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2016–17. Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages.ROSS BENJAMINs previous translations include Friedrich Hölderlins Hyperion, Joseph Roths Job, and Daniel Kehlmanns You Should Have Left. He was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translators Prize for his rendering of Michael Maars Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work on Franz Kafkas diaries. Review **Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize**"Brilliant and unputdownable." –Salman Rushdie "Profoundly enchanting. . . . A magnificent story. . . . A spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europes vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables." —The New York Times Book Review "Kehlmann is a gifted and sensitive storyteller. . . . He is a playful realist, a rationalist drawn to magical games and tricky performances, a modern who likes to look backward. . . . Brilliant." —The New Yorker "Prodigiously imaginative. . . . Brilliant, blackly sardonic. . . . In Mr. Kehlmanns unforgettable joker we have a picture of humankind in all of its madness and strutting pride." —The Wall Street Journal "Kehlmann, like Tyll, is a trickster. . . . Entertaining us like a jester on a tightrope and reminding us of the danger of a fall." —Washington Post "A laugh-out-loud-then-weep-into-your-beer comic novel about a war. . . . Ambitious, clever, tricksy, self-reflective. . . . Its operatic in its gestures and heartbreaking in its absurdity." —The Times (UK) "A rip-roaring yarn. . . . It plunges a modern reader into an astonishingly violent and dirty alternative reality. . . . But Tyll is a very funny novel, too. . . . There are many ways in which this strife-torn Europe, fractured by religion, intolerance and war, is a reflection of our own times." —The Guardian Review Quote **Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize** "Brilliant and unputdownable." - Salman Rushdie "Profoundly enchanting. . . . A magnificent story. . . . A spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europes vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables." -- The New York Times Book Review "Kehlmann is a gifted and sensitive storyteller. . . . He is a playful realist, a rationalist drawn to magical games and tricky performances, a modern who likes to look backward. . . . Brilliant." -- The New Yorker "Prodigiously imaginative. . . . Brilliant, blackly sardonic. . . . In Mr. Kehlmanns unforgettable joker we have a picture of humankind in all of its madness and strutting pride." -- The Wall Street Journal "Kehlmann, like Tyll, is a trickster. . . . Entertaining us like a jester on a tightrope and reminding us of the danger of a fall." --Washington Post "A laugh-out-loud-then-weep-into-your-beer comic novel about a war. . . . Ambitious, clever, tricksy, self-reflective. . . . Its operatic in its gestures and heartbreaking in its absurdity." -- The Times (UK) "A rip-roaring yarn. . . . It plunges a modern reader into an astonishingly violent and dirty alternative reality. . . . But Tyll is a very funny novel, too. . . . There are many ways in which this strife-torn Europe, fractured by religion, intolerance and war, is a reflection of our own times." -- The Guardian Excerpt from Book Kings in Winter I It was November. The wine supply was exhausted, and because the well in the garden was filthy, they drank nothing but milk. Since they could no longer afford candles, the whole court went to bed in the evening with the sun. The state of affairs was not good, yet there were still princes who would die for Liz. Recently, one of them had been here in The Hague, Christian von Braunschweig, and had promised her to have pour dieu et pour elle embroidered on his standard, and afterward, he had sworn fervently, he would win or die for her. He was an excited hero, so moved by himself that tears came to his eyes. Friedrich had patted him reassuringly on the shoulder, and she had given him her handkerchief, but then he had burst into tears once again, so overwhelmed was he by the thought of possessing a handkerchief of hers. She had given him a royal blessing, and, deeply stirred, he had gone on his way. Naturally, he would not accomplish it, neither for God nor for her. This prince had few soldiers and no money, nor was he particularly clever. It would take men of a different caliber to defeat Wallenstein, someone like the Swedish king, say, who had recently come down on the Empire like a storm and had so far won all the battles he had fought. He was the one she should have married long ago, according to Papas plans, but he hadnt wanted her. It was almost twenty years ago that she had instead married her poor Friedrich. Twenty German years, a whirl of events and faces and noise and bad weather and even worse food and completely wretched theater. She had missed good theater more than anything else, from the beginning, even more than palatable food. In German lands real theater was unknown; there, pitiful players roamed through the rain and screamed and hopped and farted and brawled. This was probably due to the cumbersome language. It was no language for theater, it was a brew of groans and harsh grunts, it was a language that sounded like someone struggling not to choke, like a cow having a coughing fit, like a man with beer coming out his nose. What was a poet supposed to do with this language? She had given German literature a try, first that Opitz and then someone else, whose name she had forgotten; she could not commit to memory these people who were always named Krautbacher or Engelkr Details ISBN0525562729 Author Ross Benjamin Short Title Tyll Pages 352 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0525562729 ISBN-13 9780525562726 Format Paperback Subtitle A Novel Translator Ross Benjamin Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-03-09 NZ Release Date 2021-03-09 US Release Date 2021-03-09 Place of Publication New York Publication Date 2021-03-09 UK Release Date 2021-03-09 Publisher Random House USA Inc Imprint Vintage Books DEWEY 833.914 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137974801;

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