In a brilliant, riotous tale full of macabre humour, Daniel Kehlmann lifts a jester legend from German folklore and puts him into the Thirty Years War. Translated by Ross Benjamin.
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. His books regularly become bestsellers in Germany.
His works include Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski and Fame, and have 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 40 languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. Tyll spent a year on the German bestseller lists, selling over 400,000 hardback copies.
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