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Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the danish girl. Ebershoff, the publishing director of the modern library, has written a fascinating first novel. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. His book is based on the reallife story of einar wegener, a danish artist who 70 years ago became the first man to be medically transformed into a. Loosely based on the life of danish painter einar wegener who, in 1931, became the first man to undergo a sexchange operation, the danish girl borrows the bare. The danish girl kindle edition by ebershoff, david.
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