- Kings and rulers, Musicians, Fiction, Fiction, historical
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."
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Rose Tremain
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 453
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Vintage
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099268550
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