The Goldfinch

Resumen del libro

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 one thing that 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Donna Tartt x{0026}lt;/B nació en 1963 en Greenwood, Mississippi, y se educó en el Benington College y la Universidad de Mississippi. Voraz lectora, domina el latín, el griego y el francés. Puede citar de memoria a Santo Tomás, Platón, Buda, Dante, Proust, Poe, Salinger y a su mayor ídolo, T. S. Eliot.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P En 1992 se dio a conocer con x{0026}lt;I El secretox{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), unánimemente celebrada por la crítica, a la que siguieron x{0026}lt;I Un juego de niñosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014) y la aclamada x{0026}lt;I El jilguero x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), ganadora del National Book Critics Circle Award en 2013 y del Premio Pulitzer a la mejor obra de ficción en 2014. Ha escrito, además, cuatro relatos cortos y tres obras de no ficción.x{0026}lt;/P