Review Chicago Tribune A work of unusual and stunning beauty....Amazing.The New York Times Vital, wise, and...spellbinding.John Julius Norwich author of Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 The best thing from Denmark since Hamlet.The New Yorker Like music, the book gives us both the ache and the deliverance.Los Angeles Times Evokes a realm of candlelight, shadow, music, silence, castles, farms, dense forests, and perilous seas....Tremain's prose style has an almost fairy-tale limpidity.Newsday (New York) Like Shakespeare -- who is a recent playwright during the period in which the novel is set, and much admired by the characters -- Tremain mixes history, myth, and invention, evoking the symmetries of fairy tales....Tremain...uses the past as a fantastical world where the imagination has an almost hypnotic force....She fills engrossing plots with odd details no one else could have thought of.San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Rose Tremain...has engineered a span between pop and art that's supported by each, yet marvelously out there in midair on its own....Orchestrated more like a symphony than a novel....Narratives keyed to different characters dip and soar around each other in surprising harmony, and one can't help marveling at what her dexterous technique lets the author get away with....In the hypnotic state inspired by Music & Silence, readers may find themselves not just distracted in entertaining fashion but inspired to the kind of emotional interaction that's increasingly rare in any kind of fiction these days....Tremain offers a very great store of joy indeed.The Spectator (U.K.) A magical novel...which offers great beauty, great ugliness, great wisdom.The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.) Rose Tremain's...most successful fiction.Chicago Tribune Tremain's characterizations perform their own kind of magic as they effortlessly blend realism with the fantastic, leaving the reader dazzled and moved. Read more About the Author Winner of the 1999 Whitbread Prize, Music & Silence is Rose Tremain's eighth novel. Her previous work includes The Way I Found Her and Sacred Country, which are available from Washington Square Press. She has won the Prix Femina Etranger and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and has been short-listed for the Booker Prize. Read more
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