A review by lissac
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

5.0

The Danish Girl has gotten quite a bit of press lately. A movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander was recently released and has earned several Oscar nominations. The Danish Girl is a fictionalized story of Lili Elbe, one of the first people known to have gender reassignment surgery, and her life growing up as Einar Wegener and his wife Greta Wegener. When Greta is realizes her husband’s desires, she encourages him to be himself. The novel is a beautiful story about what love is and just how far true love extends. This is not a book about just romantic love, but about love for and complete acceptance of a person and their soul. It’s about love at it’s most selfless point (a concept I heard did not necessarily make it into the movie, but I have not seen it myself).