"Shoes." Deep into the Thirty Years' War Tyll Ulenspiegel arrives in a town where the war had not yet come, along with Nele, an old woman, and the donkey. The chapter "Shoes" that serves as the novel's prologue tells a tale from the middle of the jester's life. Kehlmann does not narrate Tyll's story in a linear fashion. Between its initial publication in 2017, and its publication in English, Tyll had sold almost 600,000 copies in Germany. 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. The book was first published in October 2017 in the original German by Rowohlt Verlag. 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, as well as on the history of the Thirty Years' War. Tyll is a 2017 novel, originally written in German, by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann.
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