The Miniaturist Book Plot. Nella quickly picks up upon the strange atmosphere within the house due to the overtly hostile nature of johannes’s sister marin and the forwardness of the maid cornelia. Or perhaps the miniaturist could prove actually useful and rescue him somehow.
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Or perhaps the miniaturist could prove actually useful and rescue him somehow. I kept hoping that johannes would escape.
Marin’s development actually far outstrips that of the protagonist herself, being the culmination of the themes developed by the book.
Johannes heads to venice, where he plans to try and sell the meerman’s sugar once and for all. The miniaturist is about young nella who lives in the small town of assendelft and is married off to a much older man named johannes brandt who is from amsterdam in 1686 during it's golden age. The miniaturist has been called “a haunting debut” by good housekeeping and “utterly transporting” by burial rites author hannah kent. Intrigue the miniaturist starts off strong,…