Donna Tartt: The Goldfinch

The novel, which Pulitzer Prize winner Donna Tartt wrote for more than 10 years, is a huge epic canvas about the power of art and how it - sometimes not at all in the way we want it - can turn our entire lives upside down. 13-year-old Theo Decker miraculously survived the explosion that killed his mother. Abandoned by his father, without a single soul mate in the whole world, he wanders around foster homes and other people's families - from New York to Las Vegas - and his only consolation, which, however, almost leads to his death, is the money he stole from museum masterpiece of the Dutch old master.
Waking up after an explosion in a museum, Theo Decker receives a ring and a rare painting from a dying old man with instructions to take them out of the museum. Theo will wander around different houses and families - from New York philanthropists to an old cabinet maker, from a house in Las Vegas to a hotel room in Amsterdam, and the stolen painting will become both the curse that will drag him down to the very bottom, and the straw that will save him. which will help him get out to the light.
Posted by Donna Tartt
Translation: Anastasia Zavozova
Pages: 832 (Offset). Hardcover Dimensions: 220x150x45 mm