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SUMMARY:The Ghost Brush - Katherine Govier
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/the-ghost-brush-katherine-govier/
LOCATION:Tofino Botanical Gardens :: 1084 Pacific Rim Hwy Tofino, 
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Book Reading with Katherine Govier, author of The Ghost Brush, a novel=0D=0A=
Presented by Mermaid Tales Bookshop; Location: Darwin’s Café, Tofino Botanical Gardens=0D=0A=
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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.=0D=0A=
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?=0D=0A=
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.=0D=0A=
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Praise for The Ghost Brush, published by HarperCollins=0D=0A=
"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."=0D=0A=
— The Globe and Mail=0D=0A=
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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.=0D=0A=
Read more about Katherine at govier.com=0D=0A=

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