The miniaturist could be simply a highly perceptive observer, but she’s deliberately ambiguous. Like Nella in The Miniaturist, the real Petronella Oortman ordered a cabinet house to be made in 1686 to the exact scale of her own home.It can still be seen today in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
I don’t believe there’s an objective reality, we all construct our own stories to make sense of our lives. Cornelia the maid is highly suspicious, whereas Nella sees her as benign. Q: In your own mind how far does the supernatural foretelling of the miniaturist character go?Ī: The miniaturist for me is a question of perception and what people want to believe. Historical accuracy is important in terms of how they behaved, what they ate, but no one can know how those people truly thought. Our digital library saves in combination countries, allowing you to get the most less latency epoch to download any of our books afterward this one. The only thing I wanted to take as a character was the doll’s house. On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. Just like The Miniaturist, this new novel of Nella Brandt and her niece, Thea. How come?Ī: It was only my Dutch editor that told me that Nella buried one husband and a child, then married again. The House Of Fortune is Jessie Burtons sequel to The Miniaturist. Q: The Oortmans were real people, but you haven’t used their lives. Many of the artifacts are things which have not survived in actual size, so to social historians it is invaluable.
A: Nella’s house is filled with the paraphernalia of everyday life: china, cots, screens pots and pans.
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