num_pages: 248
description: In seventeenth-century Delft, a prosperous town in Holland, life was orderly. Rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant, all know their place.So when Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six children. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother-in-law, his restless, sensual wife and their jealous servant.What no one expects is that Griet's quiet manner, quick perceptions, and fascination with her master's paintings will draw her inexorably into his wolrd. As she becomes part of his work their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and even - as the scandal seeps out - ripples in the town beyond. Tracy Chevalier, author of the award-winning The Virgin Blue, was inspired by the girl from one of Vermeer's most loved and mysterious paintings. She has created an extraordinary and moving novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius.
language: English
title: Girl with a Pearl Earring
titlecomplete: Girl with a Pearl Earring
characters: Griet, Maria Thins, Catharina Bolnes, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Tanneke, Pieter van Ruijven, Johannes Vermeer, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring)
genres: Historical, Adult, Novels, Literature, Romance, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Art
ratings_count: 722854
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