{"product_id":"book-ddhi","title":"Tyll","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Left, Measuring the World, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eF, \u003c\/i\u003ea 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\u003edisplays 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":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328746398000,"sku":"BDddhi","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/411063-ddhi-Square.jpg?v=1733724156","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ddhi","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}