The Miniaturist: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Now a tv miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBS

Set in seventeenth hundred years Amsterdam-a city ruled by glittering prosperity and oppressive religion-a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with secret, in the custom of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.

“There is nothing at all hidden that will not be revealed .”

On the brisk autumn day time in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new lifestyle as the wife of illustrious product owner trader about The Miniaturist: A Novel Johannes Brandt. But her brand-new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes can be kind yet distant, generally locked in his research or at his warehouse office-leaving Nella by itself along with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin.

But Nella’s globe changes when Johannes presents her with a fantastic wedding present: a cabinet-sized look-alike of their house. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the providers of a miniaturist-an elusive and enigmatic musician whose tiny masterpieces mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unforeseen ways . . .

Johannes’ gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world from the Brandt household. But simply because she uncovers its unusual secrets, she starts to understand-and fear-the escalating risks that await them all. In this repressively pious culture where gold is worshipped second and then God, to vary is a danger towards the moral fabric of society, and not even a man as wealthy as Johannes is definitely safe. Only 1 person appears to see the destiny that awaits them. May be the miniaturist the key with their salvation . . . or the architect of their devastation?

Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is an impressive story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.