num_pages: 248
description: A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.
language: English
title: Girl With a Pearl Earring
titlecomplete: Girl With a Pearl Earring
characters: Catharina Bolnes, Pieter van Ruijven, Maria Thins, Johannes Vermeer, Tanneke, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Griet
genres: Art, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Adult, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 722602
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: HarperCollins