by Rose Tremain · Washington Square Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780743418263
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«Music & Silence» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by Washington Square Press in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Peter Claire, a young English lutenist, arrives in 1629 at the Danish court of Christian IV to join the royal orchestra. There he falls in love with a lady-in-waiting to Queen Kirsten, the monarch's adulterous wife, and becomes caught between loyalty and desire as harmony and dissonance clash at court.
Winner of the 1999 Whitbread Prize, it is Rose Tremain's eighth novel and originally appeared in 1999.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in the seventeenth century and courtly intrigues.
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).
