![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Between 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. 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. 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. I did plan to read this but I am 5th in the library queue so unlikely to arrive in time.ĭetails from the Booker Website: He’s a trickster, a player, a jester. Book 5 from the longlist and once again we are relying on super reader Tracy for the review. ![]()
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