by Rose Tremain · Carl Hanser Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783446199552
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«Melodie der Stille» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by Carl Hanser Verlag in hardcover (512 pages, in German).
Peter Claire, a young English lutenist, arrives at the court of Christian IV of Denmark and becomes the king's confidant. Between music, politics and the crown's debts, Peter is torn between loyalty to the monarch and love for Emilia, lady-in-waiting to the king's wife, Kirsten Munk.
Translation from English to German by Elfie Deffner; the original «Music & Silence» was published in 1999 and won the Whitbread Award. German edition of 2000.
For readers of historical fiction and seventeenth-century courtly plots, with music, love and loyalty at the center.
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).
