The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

The author of the classic bestsellers the secret history and the little friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in new york city, theo decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills of a master, the goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day america, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art-- boy with a skull -- the anatomy lesson -- park avenue -- morphine lollipop -- badr al-dine -- wind, sand and stars -- the-shop-behind-the-shop -- the-shop-behind-the-shop, continued -- everything of possibility -- the idiot -- the gentleman's canal -- the rendezvous point. Donna tartt.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company