Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year, 1999.Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, 2008.
A Radio 4 Book Club Selection.
In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realizes that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Clair understands that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death.
Rose Tremain's fiction has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence) and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Restoration) and the Orange Prize (The Colour). Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, among other periodicals, and one was selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008. Rose Tremain lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374199890 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374199892 |
| Title | Music & Silence |
| Author | Rose Tremain |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus And Giroux |
| Year published | 2000-04-06 |
| Number of pages | 485 |
| Prizes | Winner of Costa Book Awards (Novel) 1999 |
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