Tyll - Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin
Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin
Category: Novel
Narrator: Firdous Bamji
Tags: Novel, Adults, Historical Fiction, Literature
Original publication date: 2017 (in German) Audiobook release date: 2020 Publisher: Books on Tape Audiobook duration: 11:57:21, , From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artists decision never to die., Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the seventeenth-century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel begins when hes a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. When his father, a miller with a secret interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church, Tyll is forced to flee with the bakers daughter, Nele. They find safety and companionship with a traveling performer, who teaches Tyll his trade. And so begins a journey of discovery and performance for Tyll, as he travels through a continen
