{"product_id":"tyll-9780525562726","title":"Tyll","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Historical Fiction of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian'\u003c\/i\u003es Best Fiction of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrillist\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTyll 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. \u003cbr\u003eThe result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the German by Ross Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDANIEL KEHLMANN\u003c\/b\u003e's works have won the Candide Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2016-17. \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World \u003c\/i\u003ehas been translated into more than forty languages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eROSS BENJAMIN\u003c\/b\u003e's previous translations include Friedrich Hölderlin's \u003ci\u003eHyperion, \u003c\/i\u003eJoseph Roth's \u003ci\u003eJob, \u003c\/i\u003e and Daniel Kehlmann's \u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Left. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Nabokov, \u003c\/i\u003eand he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka's diaries.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50441633366290,"sku":"9780525562726","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fda33823-4652-43cb-b733-3180f79ba78a.jpg?v=1729666529","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tyll-9780525562726","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}