Tyll

"Tyll," the new novel by bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann, is a reinvention of the mythical figure Till Eulenspiegel: a grand novel about a world gone awry, the devastation of war, and the power of art. A masterpiece of language, imagery, and imagination. Tyll Ulenspiegel - vagabond and performer, entertainer and provocateur - is born at the beginning of the 17th century in a village where his father, a miller, soon comes into conflict with the church as a magician and explorer of the world. Tyll must flee, accompanied by the baker's daughter Nele. On their journey through the land ravaged by the Thirty Years' War, they encounter many ordinary people and some of the so-called greats: the young scholar and writer Martin von Wolkenstein.