num_pages: 8
description: In 1664, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the Vermeer household as a servant. Daughter of a Delft tile maker, she has a natural eye for color and design. Daily, she cleans the studio, learning much about how Vermeer sees the people he paints. As his attention focuses on her, she slowly becomes one of his subjects. Tracy Chevalier fills this unusual love story with the shades, sounds, and textures of everyday life in Holland. Narrator Ruth Ann Phimister perfectly voices Griet's growing awareness of the intrigues surrounding her and the need to define the value of her life.
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: 722656
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