Description
Set amid the glittering court of Christian IV of Denmark in 1629–1630, this award-winning historical novel moves through shifting loyalties, private desires, and the political tremors that follow the end of one royal marriage and the beginning of another. As music—its performance, its power, and its silences—threads through the lives of courtiers and servants alike, an English lutenist and a Danish woman find their love entangled with ambition, intrigue, and the cost of being seen. Rose Tremain’s richly atmospheric, multi-voiced storytelling captures the era’s pageantry while probing themes of obsession, longing, and the fragile boundary between public spectacle and private truth. With lyrical precision and a keen sense of historical texture, the novel turns courtly drama into a meditation on how art can both reveal and conceal what people cannot bear to say.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2000
485 pages
ISBN: 9780374199890
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First Published
1999
Language
eng
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