GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

CHEVALIER, TRACY

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Editorial:
CORONET BOOKS
Any d'edició:
2019
Matèria
History, politics & society
ISBN:
978-0-00-723216-1
Pàgines:
288
Enquadernació:
Paperback
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An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.

When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.

Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic.

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