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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

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The novel is a fictional account of the life of Griet, a sixteen-year-old girl in 17th-century Delft, Holland, who is forced to become a maid in the tumultuous household of the famous painter Johannes Vermeer. As Griet is quietly drawn into the world of the obsessive and enigmatic artist, she becomes his private assistant and eventually his muse. The growing intimacy between the master and the servant creates tension within the household and town, culminating in Griet secretly sitting for a portrait, immortalized in canvas and oil, wearing his wife's pearl earrings.