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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking,...
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In the wake of her tile-maker father's untimely blindness, 16-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer, where she glimpses a world very different from her own. Griet's nuanced sense of color soon attracts the attention of the artist, who teaches her how to mix pigments as she cleans his studio. But Griet's growing bond with Vermeer does not go unnoticed by the rest of the household, and when the painter chooses her to...
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