Ebershoff tells us in a helpful afterword, does not try to tell a true story. Ebershoff's first novel, and it is a promising one. Is less the sexual transformation itself than the way that transformation affected other people. In "The Danish Girl" David Ebershoff uses the bare facts of Wegener-Elbe's story to summon a rich imagined universe in which the main event Name to Lili Elbe and eventually leaking her story to the press. He historical fact is that in 1931 a Danish painter named Einar Wegener became the first man ever to be transformed surgically into a woman, changing her `The Danish Girl': Radical Change and Enduring LoveīOOKS OF THE TIMES `The Danish Girl': Radical Change and Enduring Love By RICHARD BERNSTEIN
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