Girl with a Pearl Earring

<b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling novel by the author of <i>A Single Thread</i> and <i>At the Edge of the Orchard <p/></i>Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth <p/></b>Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. <p/>History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. <i>Girl with a Pearl Earring</i> tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.