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The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 2014. Shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards The John Murray Listener's Choice Award for 2013 and for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for 2014.

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.

880 pages.

ISBN: 9780349139630

€ 16.25 

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Date of Publication: 04/06/2014

  
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