by Rose Tremain · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099268550
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«Music & Silence» is the historical novel by Rose Tremain, published by Vintage in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In 1629, the English lutenist Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court of King Christian IV. The musicians play in a freezing cellar and Peter is dubbed the royal «Angel». He falls in love with Emilia, lady-in-waiting to the monarch's estranged wife, and is torn between duty and passion while light and darkness wage war.
The novel was awarded the Whitbread Novel Award in 1999, the same year of its original publication.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in the seventeenth-century Danish court, love affairs, and music.
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).
