by Tracy Chevalier · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007232161
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«Girl with a Pearl Earring» is the historical novel by Tracy Chevalier, published by HarperCollins in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In Delft in the seventeenth century, Griet enters the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer as a maid. Her perceptive nature attracts the artist's attention, and he makes her his assistant. The intimacy between them grows, and when she poses with his wife's pearl earrings, scandal threatens her future.
The novel, originally published in 1999, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and won the ALA Alex Award.
For readers of historical fiction and book clubs interested in Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age.
Tracy Rose Chevalier is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
