The Nightingale's Song
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The Nightingale's Song
Crime in Zlatá Koruna: A Song of Death That Divided the Nobility
At the celebration for the founding of the monastery in Zlatá Koruna, a singing competition is held among other festivities, in which the squire Ota also participates. This time, however, it's not just about artistic prestige; from the very beginning, there's a palpable tension between the Czech and Austrian nobility. The minnesinger Tannhäuser also gets involved in the dispute over the winner. His erotically charged poems, however, are not to the liking of the church representatives. Everything might have been resolved peacefully if the abbot of the French monastery Vallée d'Orr, who brought the Cistercians here, had not been murdered during the night. King Přemysl Otakar II tasks Oldřich of Chlum with finding the criminal as soon as possible so that the course of the celebration is not disrupted. But just as the first suspect emerges, another murder occurs…
Vlastimil Vondruška
After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, he worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the National Museum. During that time, he published more than fifty scientific studies on the history of material culture and several academic books. He currently lives near Bezděz and devotes himself exclusively to literature and historical journalism. To date, he has published roughly eighty historical novels and detective stories, four books for young people, and, with his wife Alena, two dozen popular science books. Several titles have been published abroad. According to statistics from the National Library, he has been the most-read Czech author in Czech libraries in recent years, having sold 2 million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g., the IBBY prize, UČS award, an honorary award from Mensa, and readers' choice awards from the MOBA publishing house). His novel, The Hussite Epic, was named Bestseller of the Year in 2015. For his journalism, he received the Krameriova Prize, awarded by the Association of Independent Media. In 2017, he received a state decoration for literature.
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