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Ecco
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Marin; Nella Oortman; Johannes
421 pages
ISBN: 0062306812
EAN: 9780062306814
Kindle: B00H1UK3UO
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Fiction | Historical
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
new
home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is
kind
yet distant, always locked in his study or at his
warehouse
office–leaving Nella alone with his sister, the
sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin. But Nella's life changes when Johannes presents her with
an
extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of
their
home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a
miniaturist–an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny
creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and
unexpected 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
that await them all. In this repressively pious society
where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be
different
is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a
man as rich as Johannes is safe. 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? Enchanting, beautifully written, and exquisitely
suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of
love
and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and
truth.
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