Tyll
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020
$22.46
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2021
Summary
‘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 b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529403671 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529403677 |
| Author: | Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 251g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 28mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A beautiful, engrossing and fascinatingly structured novel. Lucid, limpid, savage. Tyll quietly intrudes on our present crisis of European identity. Have four centuries made us any wiser? This novel is a masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control - Ian McEwan
This is a brilliant and unputdownable novel. Kehlmann is the true inheritor of the German fabulist tradition that stretches back to the Brothers Grimm and even further, and in the legendary prankster figure of Tyll Ulenspiegel he has found his perfect avatar - Salman RushdieKehlmann is one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today, and he manages all this while exploring matters of deep philosophical and intellectual import - Jonathan FranzenDaniel Kehlmann is one of the great novelists for making giant themes seem light - Adam ThirlwellThe best novel Kehlmann has ever written … unlike Measuring the World, this novel is a deeply affecting, lively, brutal, wonderfully unreserved, modern, romantic German epic … Tyll is Kehlmann’s victory over history, his historic triumph - Der SpiegelA masterpiece … the most extraordinary European novel for many years … a brilliant book of stories, of great drama, cinematic and poetic … Kehlmann is at the height of his powers - Neue Zurcher ZeitungThe main difference to Measuring the World is the tone which reflects the terrible events: the destruction of the world … Kehlmann’s storytelling is astonishing - Die WeltKehlmann’s best novel so far … amidst the destruction, in the places where nothing reflects the former inhabitants anymore, it is the dead who show themselves … we owe it to this novel that we can see the dead more clearly, so clearly that it hurts - Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungAbout The Author
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.
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