The Miniaturist
- Author: Jessie Burton
- Narrator: Davina Porter
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 13:17:44
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
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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