The miniaturist
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443428477 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
416 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, [2014]
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Subject: | Young women -- Fiction Miniature painters -- Fiction Merchants -- Fiction Secrecy -- Fiction Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Alert Bay Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Alert Bay Public Library | AF BUR (Text) | 35125000128144 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her splendid new home is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, and leaves Nella alone with his sister, the fearsome Marin. Nella’s life unexpectedly changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. To furnish it, she engages the services of a miniaturist—an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie ways. Johannes’s gift helps Nella pierce the closed world of the Brandt household. But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand—and fear—the escalating dangers around them. Only one person seems to see the fate that awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation… or the architect of their destruction?"--