The Goldfinch (novel)
The Goldfinch (novel)
The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Published in 2013, it followed The Little Friend in 2002.
The Goldfinch (novel)
The Goldfinch follows 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting The Goldfinch).
Background
Tartt has stated that she had been wanting to write about Amsterdam for 20 years, having lived for some time in the city after the success of The Little Friend.
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