The sold singer

  • From a young Glaucian girl to a celebrated court singer: adventure, love and intrigue in the Napoleonic era
  • Iny Lorentz is the number 1 historical novel: almost 1,000 weeks on the SPIEGEL bestseller lists

The new historical trilogy by the SPIEGEL bestselling author: dramatic, adventurous and highly exciting!

 

Central Europe around 1796: Young Cristina belongs to a clan of jugglers from Italy, but is regarded by the authorities as an abducted child because of her blonde hair. Her aunt eventually sells her to the Duke of Saxe-Meinigen. On his orders, Cristina is to be trained as a singer. Although Cristina's training involves military drill, she loves music and her beguilingly beautiful voice soon attracts admiration, but also envy and jealousy. The lady Kordelia wants her daughter to be the new court singer and therefore joins forces with a man who has his own reasons for wanting to remove Cristina from court. When Cristina is kidnapped together with the maid Ira, more than just her career at court is at stake ...

 

"Pure history, intrigue and passion." FÜR SIE about "The Curse of the Rose"

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 02.04.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-52809-9
  • 464 Pages
  • Series: Cristina
  • Author: Iny Lorentz
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Two authors from Munich are behind the pseudonym Iny Lorentz, whose first historical novel ‘Die Kastratin’ delighted readers straightaway. With ‘Die Wanderhure’ they had their breakthrough; the novel attained more than a million readers. Since then, bestseller has followed bestseller. Iny Lorentz’s novels have been sold in numerous countries. The film adaptations of their ‘Wanderhure’- novels and more recently the ‘Pilgerin’ have delighted millions of television viewers. In the spring of 2014, Iny Lorentz was awarded the ‘Ehrenhomerpreis’ for their special merits in the sector historical novel. The stage version of the ‘Wanderhure’ enthralled thousands of visitors at the open-air festival in Bad Hersfeld in the summer of 2014. Visit the authors’ hompage: www.inys-und-elmars-romane.de