![]() ![]() With her characteristically powerful storytelling, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is a novel I fell headfirst into, sinking into the words, imagery, and events Tartt so clearly and eloquently brought to life from the very first page. ![]() 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. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. He is alienated and in love – and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. 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 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. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. ![]()
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