num_pages: 248
description: An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.
language: English
title: Girl with a Pearl Earring
titlecomplete: Girl with a Pearl Earring
characters: Maria Thins, Pieter van Ruijven, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Griet, Johannes Vermeer, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Tanneke, Catharina Bolnes
genres: Fiction, Classics, Adult Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Fiction, Art, Adult, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 722645
places: Netherlands, Delft
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: Harper Collins UK