Author: David Ebershoff
Year: 2000
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Historical fiction, Award winners
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9780140298482
0140298487 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Dresden, and Paris, this stunning first novel explores the boundaries of sex and gender, love and marriage.
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled; would he slip into a pair of women's shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time? "Of course," he answers. "Anything at all." With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.
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