A best-seller in English, this novel centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law.
Using a number of shifting perspectives - wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and servants, and a gravedigger's son - this novel follows the fortunes of two families in the first years of the 20th century.
Elizabeth Bathory genuinely believed that only by constant bathing in virgins' blood would she be able to retain her waning youthful good looks. Through her position of supreme, absolute power she was able to procure an endless number of victims.
Ogni anno di un cane è paragonabile a sette anni dell'uomo. Tanto lunghi sembrano a Case Hill i suoi anni di scuola, che non passano mai. Per fortuna riesce a inserire nel giornalino scolastico un fumetto di sua creazione. Ma quel fumetto, per colpa del bullo della scuola, sarà la fonte di innumerevoli guai..