Quercus imprint riverrun has acquired a new historical fiction novel by German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann,Tyll, in a translation by Ross Benjamin. The book, which has already sold 600,000 copies in Germany according to Quercus, will be published in hardback 6th Feburary 2020. UK and Commonwealth rights were bought from Knopf, and the publisher is releasing the book simultaneously under its Pantheon imprint in the US. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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