For Christina Olson, the whole world was limited to the confines of her family farm near a small coastal town. She was born in a house where several generations of her family lived. After a serious illness in childhood, Christina gradually lost the ability to walk. It seemed that she was destined for a quiet, unnoticed life. But Christina became a muse for the great American artist Andrew Wyeth. A friendship that lasted almost twenty years gave the world dozens of paintings written by Wyeth in the vicinity of the Olson farm. Christina herself gained immortality in the famous painting “Christina’s World.” Fact and fiction are intertwined in this novel. It focuses on the difficult fate of a woman who was tightly connected with the fate of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. “Picture of the World” is a simple and piercing novel, about the fragility of life and the power of art, about the burden and blessing of family history, about the fact that even the tiniest piece of the world can turn into a picture of the world.