num_pages: 242
description: A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept secret for decades in Susan Vreeland's powerful historical novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. The professor swears it's a Vermeer -- but why exactly has he kept it hidden so long? The reasons unfold in a gripping sequence of stories that trace ownership of the work back to Amsterdam during World War II and still further to the moment of the painting's inception.
language: English
title: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
titlecomplete: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Art History, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Art
ratings_count: 39610
places: Amsterdam
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Adult, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: San Diego Theodor S. Geisel Award
publisher: Penguin Books