num_pages: 485
description: 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 &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Music & Silence
titlecomplete: Music & Silence
genres: 20th Century, 17th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Denmark, Literary Fiction, Music, British Literature, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 4430
places: Denmark
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Washington Square Press