Tyll

HE'S A TRICKSTER, A PLAYER. A JESTER. HIS HANDSHAKE'S LIKE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL TYLL ULENSPIEGEL IS HERE!

In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. He practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. When he comes out, he will never be the same.

Tyll will escape the ordinary villages. In the mines he will defy death. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. In the courts he will trick the heads of state. His journey will take him into the heart of a never-ending war.

With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years' War. Tyll is a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a hero for all time.