The Miniaturist

  • Author: Jessie Burton
  • Narrator: Davina Porter
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 13:17:44
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Synopsis

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.

Chapters

  • 041 Verkeerspel

    Duration: 18min
  • 042 The Hopeful Loaf

    Duration: 15min
  • 043 Wild Beasts Must Be Tamed By Men

    Duration: 19min
  • 044 The Actor

    Duration: 12min
  • 045 The Guilder and the Doll

    Duration: 09min
  • 046 Arrival

    Duration: 19min
  • 047 The Tale-Teller

    Duration: 24min
  • 048 Daughters

    Duration: 21min
  • 049 A Closing Door

    Duration: 22min
  • 050 Empty Rooms

    Duration: 09min
  • 051 The Canker in the Orchard

    Duration: 13min
  • 052 Degrees of Being Alive

    Duration: 14min
  • 053 Millstone

    Duration: 09min
  • 054 Nova Hollandia

    Duration: 12min
  • 055 Credits

    Duration: 50s
  • sample

    Duration: 01min
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