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Music & Silence

by Rose Tremain · 1999

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Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain's dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception...tenderness and violence...community and alienation...peace and conflict..."Music & Silence." Peter Claire is an English lutenist summoned to Denmark to join King Christian IV's royal orchestra. Designated the king's "Angel" because of the purity of his physical beauty, Peter falls helplessly in love with the lovely companion of Queen Kirsten, the king's adulterous wife. The young musician finds himself dangerously torn between loyalties, ensnared in the deep-seated unrest of a royal court where the forces of good and evil, of harmony and dissonance, are ensconced in a battle to the death.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishistorical romancehistorical romanceMore like thisLess of this
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musicmusicMore like thisLess of thismusiciansmusiciansMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of thisrelationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of thisroyaltyroyaltyMore like thisLess of this
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17th century17th centuryMore like thisLess of thisDenmarkDenmarkMore like thisLess of thisNorwayNorwayMore like thisLess of thisScandinaviaScandinaviaMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
long · 512 pages

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