Type: Historical Fiction
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publication Date: 1999
Country: United Kingdom
Pages: 258
This novel was inspired by the painter, Johannes Vermeer’s painting named ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’. The plot revolves around the life of Griet, a sixteen-year-old girl who is required to leave her house after her father’s accident and gets employed as a maid in the household of painter Johannes Vermeer. However, she finds herself in the middle of a crisis after she starts getting intimate with her employer.