The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt · 2014
Literary Fiction · ranked #6 in category
Winner · The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2014
When a bomb destroys the museum where he is visiting, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives but his mother does not. In the chaos, he takes a small Dutch painting — The Goldfinch — which will haunt his life for the next decade and a half, through foster care, antiques, addiction and a criminal underworld. Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a meditation on art, loss and the things we carry.
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