A review by susani_
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

3.0

This was quite an extraordinary book who introduces us to Einar Wegener. He is a loving, sensitive and considerate husband. He is also, we come to understand, in ways subtle and extreme, a woman named Lili Elbe. From the moment when his wife Greta asks her husband for assistance to finish of a painting by asking him to put on stockings, the shoes and dress so she complete the painting we see a moment of change within Einar. ''A strange watery feeling was filling Einar as he stood on the lacquer trunk. . . . The dress was loose everywhere except in the sleeves, and he felt warm and submerged, as if dipping into a summer sea." At the moment when Greta says "Why don't we call you Lili''? as a reader we see that Lili has always been there.

As a wife Greta has unconditional love who would do anything for husband even if that means to let her husband go. Overall, I really enjoyed this book except the ending part which took a quite odd and absurd turn.