Tyll: A Novel Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2003) sixty years ago

sixty years ago

As funny and poignant as its predecessor

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Tyll: A Novel Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2003) sixty years agoDaniel 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. Tyll 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 bakers daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade.