ROSS BENJAMIN's previous translations include Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion, Joseph Roth's Job, and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left. Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2016-17. He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. There are many ways in which this strife-torn Europe, fractured by religion, intolerance and war, is a reflection of our own times.' - The GuardianĪbout the Author DANIEL KEHLMANN's works have won the Candide Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. It plunges a modern reader into an astonishingly violent and dirty alternative reality. It's operatic in its gestures and heartbreaking in its absurdity.' - The Times (UK) 'A rip-roaring yarn.

Ambitious, clever, tricksy, self-reflective. 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. 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. He is a playful realist, a rationalist drawn to magical games and tricky performances, a modern who likes to look backward. 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. 'Brilliant and unputdownable.' - Salman Rushdie 'Profoundly enchanting. **Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize** Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin The result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. As a juggler and a jester, Tyll forges his own path through a world devastated by the Thirty Years' War, evading witch-hunters, escaping a collapsed mine outside a besieged city, and entertaining the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia along the way. After Tyll flees with the baker's daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. Thrillist's Best Books of the Year Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Book Synopsis The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020

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