Title: The Danish Girl
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2000
Description: A stunning first novel that probes the mysteries of sex, gender, and love with insight and subtletyInspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women's shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. "Of course," he answers. "Anything at all." With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.
Subjects: Romance, Painters in fiction, Sex change in fiction, Sex change, Fiction, Painters, Elbe, Lili, in fiction, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ gender identity, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Transsexualism, Gender transition, Artists, fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Fiction, general, Copenhagen (denmark), fiction, Hormone therapy, Gender reassignment surgery, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor
People: Lili Elbe (d. 1931), Lili Elbe (1882-1931)
LC classification: PS3555.B4824 D36 2000