New Releases by Tracy Chevalier

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. As their stories intertwine with Blake''s, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius.

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.

La joven Isabelle du Moulin vive fascinada por el profundo color azul de la hornacina de la Virgen de la iglesia del pueblo. Son malos tiempos para admirar un icono católico: en la Francia del siglo XVI, el protestantismo libra una lucha feroz contra la vieja religión romana... Un día, mientras la observa extasiada, el reflejo del sol le vuelve súbitamente el cabello rojo. No puede saber entonces de qué modo esos dos colores, el rojo de su pelo y el azul de la Virgen, marcarán su vida. Cuatrocientos años más tarde, Ella Turner llega al mismo pueblo. Guiada por unos extraños sueños y con la ayuda del bibliotecario, buscará el rastro del pasado hasta desentrañar el secreto familiar que ha permanecido escondido durante siglos.

«El mundo de París y Bruselas del siglo XV revive para nosotros.» Evening Standard Los tapices de La dama y el unicornio han fascinado a expertos y aficionados durante siglos. En cada uno de ellos, una elegante mujer y el mítico animal se encuentran en un islote de hierba rodeado de flores. Pero poco más se sabe sobre ellos... El seductor Nicolas des Innocents ha recibido el encargo del noble parisino Jean Le Viste de diseñar unos tapices para su gran salón. Mientras Nicolas mide las paredes, conoce a la hermosa hija del noble y nace entre los dos una pasión imposible para la época. Tracy Chevalier lleva a los lectores al momento de la creación de la obra de arte, dando vida a los hombres que la diseñaron y crearon, y a las mujeres que influyeron en ellos. La historia y la ficción se entrelazan en un tapiz literario de ambiciones, deseos y hechizo artístico que rivaliza en belleza con la obra que lo inspiró.

Désireux d''orner les murs de sa nouvelle demeure parisienne, le noble Jean Le Viste commande une série de six tapisseries à Nicolas des Innocents, miniaturiste renommé à la cour du roi de France, Charles VIII. Le commanditaire est riche, il rêve de grandes scènes de chasse et de batailles. Surpris d''avoir été choisi pour un travail si éloigné de sa spécialité, l''artiste accepte après avoir entrevu la fille de Jean Le Viste dont il s''éprend. Elle deviendra l''inspiratrice et le modèle des tapisseries. Cette passion entraînera Nicolas dans le labyrinthe de relations délicates entre maris et femmes, parents et enfants, amants et servantes. A Bruxelles, le lissier Georges de La Chapelle est confronté au plus grand défi de sa carrière. Jamais il n''a accepté un travail aussi ambitieux dans des délais aussi brefs. Mais les commandes sont rares. Toute la vie de son atelier et de sa famille en sera bouleversée. En élucidant le mystère d''un chef-d''œuvre magique, Tracy Chevalier (auteur de La Jeune Fille à la perle) ressuscite un univers de passion et de désirs dans une France où le Moyen Age s''apprête à épouser la Renaissance.

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family’s French ancestry. As the novel unfolds—alternating between Ella’s story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earlier—a common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.

A maid becomes a model for the 17th century Dutch painter, Vermeer. The woman, an artisan''s daughter with a strong power of observation, describes his manner of work, his household and life of the day, including the rigid class system and religious bigotry. A debut in fiction.

A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen''s death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger''s son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).

The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth Tracy 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.

En la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, el pintor holandés Johannes Vermeer inmortalizó en una tela a una bella muchacha adornada con un turbante y un pendiente de perla. Sus labios parecen esbozar una sonrisa sensual, pero sus ojos irradian la tristeza más profunda. La joven de la perla es la historia de una fascinación, de cómo surge un sentimiento que se mueve entre la admiración y el amor. La luz en los ojos de Griet, la sirvienta convertida en musa, encierra el misterio más profundo en el proceso de creación de una obra de arte. Tracy Chevalier evoca la vida cotidiana en el siglo XVII holandés en esta hermosa novela sobre el despertar a la vida y al arte.

Erzählt werden die Geschehnisse im Haus des Malers Vermeer van Delft über die Jahre 1664 bis 1666 aus Sicht der Magd Griet, die als 16-Jährige, aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen stammend, in sein Haus kommt und zum berühmten äMädchen mit Perleä avanciert.

Contains biographical entries, a list of separately published books, and an essay on each poet.