Soul Music (novel)
Rolling Stones ( English title: Soul Music) is a novel by Terry Pratchett. It is the sixteenth Discworld novel. Rolling Stones was released in 1994. The scene is Ankh -Morpork. As in many stories of Pratchett Rolling Stones introduces a significant element of modern societies, in this case, the rock and roll, in the magical, late medieval Discworld; - Including the star cult and with almost disastrous consequences. For the first time Susan Sto Helit also plays the daughter of Mort and Ysabell and thus granddaughter of death, an action role.
German edition
Goldmann, 1996 ISBN 3-442-41589-6
Action
Obsessed with the idea of being the greatest musician of the Discworld, pulls the young harpist Imp Y Cellyn by Ankh -Morpork. But Ankh -Morpork would not Ankh-Morpork even if the music was not organized in a musical guild. The membership fee Imp can of course not afford and so he founded with the troll Lias and the dwarf Glod Glodson the " band with stones Drin ". Always threatened by thugs and assassins who incited them the guild on the neck, play and propagate them free music.
An unfortunate incident has Imps harp chips turned into a pile, so he has to resort to a guitar-like instrument replacement. However, this guitar is possessed by an ancient musical entity and Imp plays less her when she plays it. Together, they make any event, a music as it has not yet heard the Discworld, and how they, in the opinion of the Patrician, it should never be heard, too. A veritable rock and roll fever captured the city.
In parallel, human touch death once more and want to learn to forget. He denied the obligation and its essence inherent mechanisms to ensure that while his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit minors must keep the store running.
Susanne is first Imps fan and falls in love with the little elvisch acting bard. When she finds that she has a Sanduhrjob to his name, she decides the duty to withdraw and Imp to deny death. Details of the planned time of death is Susanne surprised to find that the empty life clock of the singer filled with blue smoke and Imp unmolested brings his performance to end. Susanne suspects that the music and not the band or the death determines further action. After the last large open- air concert Imp dies, according to the universal the- good- the -young- principle in a cart accident; - Obviously a tribute to James Dean. One of the things that death does not tolerate well is to see his granddaughter unhappy. To ensure that everything is in order, he does not prejudge the final again in the events a.
Others
Also known as ( Abridged ) Audiobook ( in the series Rolling Stone Talking Books), Speaker: Rufus Beck, ISBN 978-3-86604-574-3