by Susan Vreeland · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478887033
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«La joven de azul jacinto» is the historical novel by Susan Vreeland, published by Salamandra in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
A lost work by Jan Vermeer, the seventeenth-century Dutch painter, is the thread running through this novel: the painting passes through the hands of a mathematics teacher, a deported Jewish family, and a German soldier who gazes at it fascinated. Each chapter shows how the beauty of the canvas transforms those who possess it.
It belongs to Salamandra's Narrativa collection and is the second edition. The work, originally published in 1999, was a finalist for the Book Sense prize in 2000.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and art fiction, and for reading groups interested in works that combine painting and narrative.
Susan Joyce Vreeland was an American author. Several of her books deal with the relationship between art and fiction. The Passion of Artemisia is a fictionalized investigation of some aspects of the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while Girl in Hyacinth Blue centers round an imaginary painting by Vermeer. The Forest Lover is a fictionalized account of the life of the Canadian painter Emily Carr.
