by Rose Tremain · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253136644
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«Le don du roi» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by LGF in paperback (416 pages, in French).
In the England of Charles II, the medical student Merivel becomes the king's fool and favourite, and agrees to marry Celia, one of the royal mistresses, to conceal the affair. When he falls in love with her, he falls from grace and his journey takes him through an asylum, the Great Plague of London and the fire of 1666.
First instalment of the Restoration series. The work was originally published in English as «Restoration» in 1989, was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Sunday Express Book of the Year.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, especially those who enjoy the intrigues of the seventeenth-century English court.
Dame Rosemary Jane Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. She as been the recipient of many prizes for her writing, including the Giles Cooper Award (1984), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1992), the Whitbread Award (1999) and the Orange Prize (2008).
