num_pages: 270
description: Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?  It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate.  Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires.  The Danish Girl’s lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last page is turned, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.A New York Times Notable Book * Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction * Winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters * Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award * Finalist for the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award
language: English
title: The Danish Girl
titlecomplete: The Danish Girl
characters: Greta Wegener, Einar Wegener
genres: Gender, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Historical, Queer, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult, LGBT
ratings_count: 23446
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
publisher: Penguin