by Tracy Chevalier · HarperCollins · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007218004
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«Girl with a Pearl Earring» is the historical novel by Tracy Chevalier, published by HarperCollins in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
In seventeenth-century Holland, Griet, a young maid, enters the service of the painter Johannes Vermeer; her observant gaze and her relationship with the artist lead her to pose for the portrait that gives the novel its title, while the painter's household fills with social and familial tensions.
«Girl with a Pearl Earring» was originally published in 1999; this limited HarperCollins edition (2005) includes new material and illustrations.
For readers of historical fiction, art lovers, and book clubs: a novel set in seventeenth-century Holland.
Tracy Rose Chevalier is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
