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You know those St. It was very challenging to choose just one book amongst many of favorites. But as I love Dutch Golden Era, this came perfectly as a fusion of both. Book is written by Susan Vreeland, American writer with Dutch ancestry, so this is a sort of her hommage to her origins. Book is divided in chapters. In first chapter, a lonely mathematician is looking at the picture, which was hidden. Which lead us to chapter 2. In this chapter, we met with Jewish family living in Amsterdam. Hannah, Jewish girl remember how excited she was when her father bought the painting to her. She feels connection between her and girl on the painting. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

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Skip to main content. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman's awakening in the south of Vichy France--to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war. Hyacinthh regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris.

But as she soon discovers, the hilltop town is rich with unexpected pleasures. Pascal once worked in the nearby ochre mines and later became a pigment salesman and frame maker; while selling his pigments in Paris, he befriended Pissarro and Czanne, some of whose paintings he received in trade for his frames. Pascal begins to tutor Lisette in both art and life, allowing her to see his small collection of paintings and the Provenal landscape itself in a new light. Inspired by Click here advice to "Do the Vreekand things first," Lisette begins a list of vows to herself 4.

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When war breaks out, Andr goes off to the front, but not before hiding Pascal's paintings to keep them from the Nazis' reach. With German forces spreading across Europe, the sudden fall of Paris, and the rise of Vichy France, Lisette sets out to locate the paintings Find the paintings in my lifetime. Her search takes her through the stunning French countryside, where she befriends Marc and Bella Chagall, who are in hiding before their flight to America, Susqn acquaints her with the land, her neighbors, and even herself in ways she never dreamed possible.

Through joy and tragedy, occupation and liberation, Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland acts of kindness and great acts of courage, Lisette learns to forgive the past, to live robustly, and to love again. Praise for Lisette's List "Vreeland's love of painters and painting, her meticulous research and pitch-perfect descriptive talents. Readers will enjoy lingering in the sun-dappled, fruit-scented Provenal landscape that Vreeland brings to life. Louis Post-Dispatch "Mesmerizing. Vreeland's passionate writing is as good as a private showing at the Louvre. Vreeland provides the reader with a broad spectrum of emotions.

Like the painters Vreeland writes about, she too is leaving her legacy--some of the world's finest examples of historical fiction. Vreeland's love of painters and Hyavinth, her meticulous research and the pitch-perfect descriptive talents that distinguished such books as Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Luncheon of the Boating Party are abundantly Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland in her new novel.

Vreeland knows her art, she knows Provence, and she's done her historical homework. Lisette's List offers its readers a pleasurable opportunity to learn something about art, history and ocher, and to enjoy a plucky heroine who grows in ways she never Vreelans possible. Une jolie Parisienne in Provence during the turbulent World War II years comes to understand love and great art to the core of her being. Vreeland, who has proven in earlier art-themed bestsellers that she has an exquisite eye for detail, is enormously talented at establishing the important societal role of art. Her deeply researched novel is mesmerizing.

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