Rolling Stones

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Rolling Stones (Original Title: Soul Music ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett from 1994. He is the sixteenth Discworld novel . The action takes place in Ankh-Morpork. As in many of Pratchett's stories, Rolling Stones introduces a significant element of modern society, in this case rock 'n' roll , into the magical, late medieval Discworld - including the star cult and with almost disastrous consequences. For the first time, Susan Sto Helit, the daughter of Mort and Ysabell and thus the granddaughter of Tod, plays an important role.

action

Obsessed with the idea of ​​becoming the greatest musician on the Discworld, the young harpist Imp y Celyn moves to Ankh-Morpork. But Imp cannot afford the membership fee of the musicians' guild and so he founds the "Band Mit Steinen Drin" with the troll Lias and the dwarf Glod Glodson . Always threatened by thugs and assassins whom the guild incites on them, they play and promote free music.

An unfortunate incident has turned Imp's harp into a pile of shavings, so that he has to fall back on a guitar-like replacement instrument. However, this guitar is possessed by an ancient musical entity and Imp plays it rather than plays it. At any rate, together they make music that Discworld has never heard before, and that, in the patrician's opinion , should never be heard again. A real rock 'n' roll fever is gripping the city.

At the same time, death is human again and wants to learn to forget. He refuses to do his duty and the mechanisms inherent in his nature ensure that his underage granddaughter Susanne Sto Helit has to keep the business going.

Susanne becomes Imp's first fan and falls madly in love with the somewhat Elvish-looking bard. When she discovers that she has an hourglass job in his name, she decides to shirk duty and to refuse Imp to die. At the planned time of death, Susanne was surprised to find that the singer's empty clock fills with blue smoke and Imp brings his performance to an end unmolested. Susanne suspects that the music and not the band or death determines what happens next. After the last big open-air concert , Imp died in a cart accident, according to the universal the-good-die-young principle. One of the things that death doesn't take well is seeing his granddaughter unhappy. So at the end he intervenes again in the events so that everything is in order.

expenditure

• Paperback, Goldmann, 1996 ISBN 3-442-41589-6
• Paperback, Manhattan Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-442-54733-3
• Abridged audio book, speaker: Rufus Beck, ISBN 978-3-86604-574-3

Web links

• Remarks
• Entry in the German-language DiscWiki