
(.) Kehlmann’s own graceful sleight-of-hand makes past and present, myth and history, merge." - Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times (.) Kehlmann’s "Liz" is a memorable creation: shrewd, sad, resourceful and dignified. Like a magician plucking an egg from an empty palm, Kehlmann summons comedy, farce, wisecracking badinage, even romance, from this blighted time.", across years of massacre, starvation, epidemic, torture and pillage. Tyll and his companions dance, juggle and blag their way through "the never-ending landscape of the war. He has, though, a genial lightness all his own.


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