Author | Daniel Kehlmann |
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Translator | Ross Benjamin |
Language | German |
Genre | Historical |
Publisher | Rowohlt Verlag |
Publication date | October 2017 |
Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 6 February 2020 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 473 |
ISBN | 978-3-498-03567-9 |
OCLC | 1006404492 |
833/.914 | |
LC Class | PT2671.E32 T95 2017 |
Tyll is a 2017 novel, originally written in German, by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann. The book is based, in part, on the folkloristic tales about Till Eulenspiegel, a jester who was the subject of a chapbook in 16th century Germany,[1] as well as on the history of the Thirty Years' War. The book was first published in October 2017 in the original German by Rowohlt Verlag.[2] An English translation by Ross Benjamin was published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House, New York, in February 2020.[3] Between its initial publication in 2017, and its publication in English, Tyll had sold almost 600,000 copies in Germany.[4]