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Tyll

By Daniel Kehlmann

Tyll Social Sciences

Tyll

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'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan 'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman Rushdie He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. He's practising. He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths; he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. When he comes out, he will never be the same. Tyll will escape the ordinary villages. In the mines he will defy death. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. In the courts he will trick the heads of state. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war. A prince's doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall. Between the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue; exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools. With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years' War. When citizens become the playthings of politics and puppetry, Tyll, in his demonic grace and his thirst for freedom, is the very spirit of rebellion - a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a hero for all time. ***LOVED TYLL? ORDER DANIEL KEHLMANN'S LATEST, THE DIRECTOR, NOW***
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2021-03-09
Publication Date:
2021-03-09
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing Plc
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1529403677
ISBN13:
9781529403671
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
252 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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