The Ghost Brush - Katherine Govier

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Friday, February 18th, 2011
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Book Reading with Katherine Govier, author of The Ghost Brush, a novel
Presented by Mermaid Tales Bookshop; Location: Darwin�s Caf�, Tofino Botanical Gardens

The Ghost Brush, combines international research, scholarly detective work, and imagination. It brings a great, lost woman artist to life�and exposes the process by which she was subtracted from history.
As a child, Oei joined her father, Hokusai, the printmaker, in his studio. In a time when a woman was a possession of her men folk, Oei laboured to bring her father�s visions to life. Her home of Edo (Tokyo) was the largest city in the world. Oei left hundreds of beautiful pictures. But she - and her work � are lost to history. Or are they?
Now, 150 later, scholars examine the thousands of Hokusai paintings in museums around the world. Some are forgeries; many are the work of students. But the authorship of the greatest works, painted in the last ten years of Hokusai�s life, is a mystery.

Praise for The Ghost Brush, published by HarperCollins
"Govier's expansive historical novel turns the spotlight on Oei, the �ghost brush� attributed to some of her father's famous prints, and a character that drives a compulsively readable novel."
� The Globe and Mail

Katherine Govier is an award-winning novelist with a special interest in historical figures that are artists. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. An award-winning author, she has published nine novels, including The Ghost Brush, three short story collections, among many other literary activities.
Read more about Katherine at govier.com