GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING The New  York Times bestselling novel by the author of Remarkable Creatures and The Last  Runaway Translated into thirty-nine languages  and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin FirthTracy  Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined  portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and  fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and  sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl  Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is  transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is  immortalized in canvas and oil.