Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-Prize winning book The Goldfinch is now available in paperback, published by Little, Brown. One of the most talked about books in years, The Goldfinch is the perfect summer read.
In March it was revealed that a screen adaptation is on the way after the producers behind The Hunger Games announced that they have taken up an option on the book. Of the book Stephen King has said ‘a triumph… Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction’. The Guardian described it as ‘an astonishing achievement’. The wall of praise is for this remarkable story is ever- growing.
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love – and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph – a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.
Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.
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