The Danish Girl

by David Ebershoff

Subscribe to alerts

Paperback

Free delivery

Out of Stock

Get notified when this item becomes available

Be the first to like this

Learn More

You can use the 'like' button to provide positive feedback on products, reviews and other features on the website. 'Like' is similar to voting and will be used to present the most popular content. Once you have clicked 'like', you cannot 'unlike'. You can only 'like' something once.

Overview
Customer reviews

Related Products

All That I Am

by Anna Funder

Online Price: $20.99

The Mothers' Group

by Fiona Higgins

Online Price: $26.99

Online Price: $26.99

Past The Shallows

by Favel Parrett

The Danish Girl

Synopsis

Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual marriages of the twentieth century. Einar Wegener and his American wife Greta Waud have been married for six years, but are yet to have a child. Both painters, they live a life of bohemian languor in Copenhagen until one day their lives are irreversibly altered. The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the intimacy that defines a marriage and the nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman, and his wife who would sacrifice anything for him. This elegantly written, sensual and engrossing novel is a wonderful celebration of love. With great sensitivity and intelligence, David Ebershoff tells the story of this extraordinary marriage, which survives the hardest test any couple could face. Praise for The Danish Girl 'an engrossing story of true love, suffering and sacrifice' -Sunday Telegraph 'a quality of extraordinariness...an astonishing idea, rendered arrestingly: a hypnotising uniqueness' -Courier-Mail 'an enthralling