![]() ![]() 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. A prince's doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall.Ä«etween the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war. ![]() In the courts he will trick the heads of state. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. When he comes out, he will never be the same. ![]() He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. ![]()
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