Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch

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The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret Historyand The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.
Composed with the skills of a master,The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
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  • Мариshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🎯Worthwhile

    Great and captivating read! Could have done more research on Russian phrases though.

  • Mustika L. Hapsoroshared an impression6 years ago
    💞Loved Up

    Boris is a far more interesting character than the protagonist, Theo. I felt that after Boris’ introduction, I was more inclined to continue reading the book.

  • Natalia Latyshevashared an impression7 years ago
    💤Borrrriiinnng!

    Не поняла шумихи вокруг этой книги. Сначала история довольно увлекательная, но потом становится скучно. Финал совсем не понравился. И непонятно, в чем идея.

Quotes

  • billecarthas quoted10 years ago
    Artist’s loft, without the art!
  • shanhas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Bad artists copy, good artists steal.’
  • shanhas quoted5 years ago
    It was Boris I missed, the whole impulsive mess of him: gloomy, reckless, hot-tempered, appallingly thoughtless.

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