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Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-
Subjects
Eulenspiegel (Satire) -- Fiction.
Entertainers -- Fiction.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Fiction.
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Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-
Eulenspiegel (Satire) -- Fiction.
Entertainers -- Fiction.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Fiction.
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Tyll
: a novel /
Daniel
Kehlmann
; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin.
by
Kehlmann
,
Daniel
,
1975-
Pantheon Books, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION KEH
Subjects
Eulenspiegel (Satire) -- Fiction.
Entertainers -- Fiction.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Europe -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525562726
9781524747466 (hc)
Uniform title:
Tyll
.
English
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
342 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Summary:
"From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of
Tyll
Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist's decision never to die.
Daniel
Kehlmann
masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the seventeenth-century vagabond performer and trickster
Tyll
Ulenspiegel begins when he's a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. When his father, a miller with a secret interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church,
Tyll
is forced to flee with the baker's daughter, Nele. They find safety and companionship with a traveling performer, who teaches
Tyll
his trade. And so begins a journey of discovery and performance for
Tyll
, as he travels through a continent devastated by the Thirty Years' War and encounters along the way a hangman, a fraudulent Jesuit scholar, and the exiled King Frederick and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.
Tyll
displays
Kehlmann
's remarkable narrative gifts and confirms the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
War fiction
Psychological fiction.
Magic realism (Literature)
German fiction -- Translations into
English
.
Other authors:
Benjamin, Ross.
Holds:
1
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Fiction
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