num_pages: 8
description: Griet, a tilemaker's daughter in 17th-century Holland, starts her first job as a servant in the Vermeer household. Through Griet's eyes, the story is told of the family, the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet is drawn into Vermeer's life, but there is a price to pay.
language: English
title: Girl with a Pearl Earring
titlecomplete: Girl with a Pearl Earring
characters: Johannes Vermeer, Catharina Bolnes, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Maria Thins, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Tanneke
genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance, Adult, Classics, Adult Fiction, Novels, Literature, Art, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 722682
places: Delft, Netherlands
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Recorded Books