(Pdf Read) [The Strawberry Girl]

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DOWNLOAD The Strawberry Girl 107 Summer 1893 and the Norwegian fishing village of Åsgårdstrand is preparing for the arrival of well to do guests and bohemian artists from the city Local girl Johanne Lien dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as ‘The Strawberry Girl Johanne used to spend her summers selling strawberries but now that she s slightly older her mother decides she needs to get a real job in addition to her strawberry selling Through the neighbors Johanne ends up working as a maid for an admiral s family where she meets the Tullik a passionate and beautiful girl who is used to doing as she pleases Tullik takes a liking to Johanne and befriends her often getting her out of her chores so that they can go to town or the beach The town Johanne lives in is beautiful and visited by tourists over the summer freuently The admirals family is one of the many people summering there but so are many artist one of who is renting Johanne s house from her family Next door to Johanna lives Edvard Munch a disreputable painter who everyone gossips about Though her mother forbids her from talking to him Johanne sometimes has conversations with Munch because of her love for painting He lends her Goethe s Theory of Colours which she reads through to improve her art In the course of their friendship Johanne learns that Tullik s older sister had an affair with Edvard Munch Both girls are fascinated by the tortured artist but Tullik especially so As the cross paths with Munch he and Tullik soon strike up an affair Johanne must cover for Tullik as she gets pulled deeper and deeper into her affair with Munch jeopardizing her job as she struggles between her perceived friendship and loyalty to Tullik and her job at the house plus what is expected of her The story is supposed to be based on the real life affair that drove Munch to paint The Scream and before reading the book I really had zero idea about the backstory to the painting Coming in with this lack of information I can t say how accurate the story is even in terms of the art because I m not well versed with art history I did however enjoy the story and the writing I liked the emotional and illustrative writing style and the way it set a hazy tone to the story I also liked reading about Johanne s changing attitude as she grows up over the summer it was some what different from the other coming of age stories I ve read I did feel like the affair between Tullik and Munch was a little overly dramatic especially with the painting and then her losing her mind but it fit in with the way the rest of the story was told

DOWNLOAD The Strawberry Girl 107 Johanne becomes a maid for the wealthy Ihlen family whose wayward daughter Tullik recruits her as a go between in her pursuit of the controversial painter Edvard Munch Before long Johanne is drawn into the raw emotion of Munch’s art and his secret liaison with Tulli Amazing book I totally recommend it I had such high expectations of this book and I was a bit afraid it would not live up to them but it surpassed them instead It s a book about breaking social barriers and norms about being different in a strict society and at what cost comes not to think at every step What is the world going to think about this It s a book about madness love and grief and about translating feelings intro colours into images and preserving them that wayA great historical fiction for everyone who loves art especially painting for everyone who feels deeply and lives everything with intensity for everyone

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DOWNLOAD The Strawberry Girl 107 K But when she is asked to hide than just secrets Johanne must decide whether to take the riskLisa Stromme brings alive the tumultuous love affair that inspired one of the most famous paintings of all time in a vivid and bewitching story of innocence creativity and desi Goodreads winA brilliant book normally see a love blossoming b one of the people this book tells from afar Brilliant