GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING By Tracy Chevalier

This novel is about the two years of life changing experiences a young girl goes through during her serving a painter, Johannes Vermeer.

She joins the household as a maid and as time goes by the painter recognizes her talents and gives her special duties. She gets the special privilege of grinding and mixing his paints while even the artist wife is forbidden to enter the studio. This bring the household in to chaos.

The artist agrees to paint greit on a friends request. This phase of the story gives us a through encounter of greits feelings for her master. As she sits silently and still for the painting under the watchful artistic eye o the painter she falls in love with him.

The butchers son is in love with greit and is asking for her hand in marriage but Greit however is obedient only to her master. She even agrees to wear her mistresses pearl earring for the painting although she knew that she is doomed by this act.

This is a lovely piece of literature which everyone must read.

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