**Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize**
"Brilliant and unputdownable." -
Salman Rushdie "Profoundly enchanting. . . . A magnificent story. . . . A spellbinding memorial to the nameless souls lost in Europe's vicious past, whose whispers are best heard in fables."
–The New York Times Book Review "Kehlmann is a gifted and sensitive storyteller. . . . He is a playful realist, a rationalist drawn to magical games and tricky performances, a modern who likes to look backward. . . . Brilliant."
–The New Yorker "Prodigiously imaginative. . . . Brilliant, blackly sardonic. . . . In Mr. Kehlmann's unforgettable joker we have a picture of humankind in all of its madness and strutting pride."
–The Wall Street Journal "Kehlmann, like Tyll, is a trickster. . . . Entertaining us like a jester on a tightrope and reminding us of the danger of a fall."
–Washington Post "A laugh-out-loud-then-weep-into-your-beer comic novel about a war. . . . Ambitious, clever, tricksy, self-reflective. . . . It's operatic in its gestures and heartbreaking in its absurdity."
–The Times (UK) "A rip-roaring yarn. . . . It plunges a modern reader into an astonishingly violent and dirty alternative reality. . . . But
Tyll is a very funny novel, too. . . . There are many ways in which this strife-torn Europe, fractured by religion, intolerance and war, is a reflection of our own times."
–The Guardian
