# Tyll: A Novel

## Authors

- **Daniel Kehlmann**
- **Ross Benjamin**

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### Overview

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.

**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 baker’s 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.**

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### Critical Reception
- The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020
- The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020
- Thrillist's Best Books of the Year.

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