Girl with a Pearl Earring

In Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier has achieved something close to a perfect novel.Perfect? Well … the novel achieves an evidently successful and pleasing balance between apparent simplicity and hidden complexity, and between an immediate clarity and an intriguing sense of mystery. I"ve read it three times now, as well as studying it in detail, and these qualities do not fade, but rather become more impressive...

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