{"product_id":"tyll","title":"Tyll","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Left, Measuring the World,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eF,\u003c\/i\u003e a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist's decision never to die\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 he's 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 baker's 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 continent devastated by the Thirty Years' War and encounters along the way a hangman, a fraudulent Jesuit scholar, and the exiled King Frederick and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTyll\u003c\/i\u003e displays Kehlmann's remarkable narrative gifts and confirms the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTranslated from the German by Ross Benjamin\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49089710948607,"sku":"*R0164632*","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/24067963482730.jpg?v=1787679687","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/tyll","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}