La storia di Theo Decker, sopravvissuto, appena tredicenne, all'attentato terroristico che in un istante manda in pezzi la sua vita. Solo a New York, senza parenti né un posto dove stare, viene accolto dalla ricca famiglia di un suo compagno di scuola. A disagio nella sua nuova casa di Park Avenue, isolato dagli amici e tormentato dalla nostalgia per la madre, l'unica cosa che riesce a consolarlo è un piccolo quadro dal fascino singolare. E da lì, il suo futuro diventa una rocambolesca giravolta tra salotti chic, amori e criminalità, guidato da una pulsione autodistruttiva, impossibile da controllare.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King,The New York Times Book Review

Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

EL JILGUERO - TARTT DONNA - Random Spagna

"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. Aloneand 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"--

Un'ombra cupa si stende sull'infanzia di Harriet Cleve, che cresce con la famiglia in una cittadina del Mississippi: è l'omicidio, senza colpevoli, del fratello Robin, impiccato a un albero del giardino quando lei era appena nata. Quella tragedia ha segnato tutta la famiglia, che non è più riuscita a superare il dolore. Per Harriet, Robin è il "piccolo amico", il legame con un passato felice che lei conosce solo attraverso le fotografie, i ricordi, i racconti dei familiari. Così, nell'estate in cui compie dodici anni, decide di scoprire l'assassino del fratello e di compiere la sua vendetta.

LE CHARDONNERET - TARTT DONNA - Interforum

LE MAITRE DES ILLUSIONS - TARTT DONNA - Interforum

Un'ombra cupa si stende sull'infanzia di Harriet Cleve, che cresce con la famiglia in una cittadina del Mississippi: è l'omicidio, senza colpevoli, del fratello Robin, impiccato a un albero del giardino quando lei era appena nata. Quella tragedia ha segnato tutta la famiglia, che non è più riuscita a superare il dolore. Per Harriet, Robin è il "piccolo amico", il legame con un passato felice che lei conosce solo attraverso le fotografie, i ricordi, i racconti dei familiari. Così, nell'estate in cui compie dodici anni, decide di scoprire l'assassino del fratello e di compiere la sua vendetta.

Un piccolo raffinato college nel Vermont. Cinque ragazzi ricchi e viziati e il loro insegnante di greco antico, un esteta che esercita sugli allievi una forte seduzione spirituale. A loro si aggiunge un giovane piccolo borghese squattrinato. In pigri weekend consumati tra gli stordimenti di alcol, droga e sottili giochi d'amore, torna a galla il ricordo di un crimine di inaudita violenza. Per nascondere il quale è ora necessario commeterne un altro ancora più spietato...

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, 13-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue in this new novel by the author of The Secret History.

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue in this new novel by the author of The Secret History. Read by David Pittu. Simultaneous.

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Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.

True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true cult status, this is an American classic through and through. This new edition, with a smart new package and an afterword by acclaimed author Donna Tartt, will bring this masterpiece to an even broader audience.

Bonaventure (1221–1274), an Italian theologian and monk, is widely considered the greatest Franciscan mystic after St. Francis himself. Commissioned by the Franciscan Order, Bonaventure wrote this official biography of St. Francis of Assisi in 1260 –– his riveting account is simple yet inspiring, and essential reading for those looking to understand the remarkable life and spirituality of this revered saint.

Reissue for Tartt's superb psychological suspense novel set in an elite New England College. First published ten years ago, this, Donna Tartt's debut novel, has sold over 600,000 copies. "It takes my breath away, it's so accomplished" Ruth Rend

aperback edition of Tartt's huge selling second novel, follow up to the worldwide bestseller, }The Secret History{. 12 year old Harriet's family is still suffering from the mysterious death of her brother 12 years earlier, and so she sets out

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin's sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town's rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family's history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.

Nel 1992, il romanzo d'esordio di Donna Tartt, Dio di illusioni, fu salutato dai critici come un capolavoro e divenne un libro di culto per legioni di lettori di tutto il mondo. A quel sensazionale debutto hanno fatto seguito anni di silenzio, isolamento e strenuo lavoro attorno al nuovo romanzo, lungamente atteso: Il piccolo amico, la storia della dodicenne Harriet Cleve Dufresnes e dell'estate in cui la ragazzina decide di scoprire, insieme all'amico Hely, chi ha ucciso suo fratello Robin, impiccato a un albero del giardino quando lei era appena nata. Come Dio di illusioni, anche questa è una storia di delitti e di mistero, non più ambientata in un college del New England, fra studenti travolti dall'ebbrezza dionisiaca, bensì nel Mississippi rurale da cui proviene l'autrice. E anche questo romanzo si inserisce in una lunga tradizione letteraria: Harriet e Hely si gettano in avventure temerarie come Huckleberry Finn e Tom Sawyer, gli sbandati e criminali fratelli Ratliff - su cui si concentrano i loro sospetti - discendono dai pirati dell'Isola del tesoro, e gli espedienti romanzeschi escogitati dalla protagonista per compiere la sua vendetta derivano direttamente da Kipling e Poe. Ma per Donna Tartt, scrittrice colta e raffinata, la letteratura non è che lo strumento più preciso per esplorare la natura umana: mentre appassiona, diverte, seduce, il suo romanzo racconta il delitto e la morte per indagare i misteri della vita, e trasporta il lettore nella terra di confine in cui è difficile distinguere il vero dal falso, il bene dal male, il colpevole dalla vittima.

Storytelling in the grand manner, The Secret History is a debut remarkable for its hypnotic erudition and acute psychological suspense, and for the richness of its emotions, ideas, and language.
These are the confessions, years afterward, of a young man who found at a small Vermont college the life of privilege and intellect he'd long coveted - and rarely has the glorious experience of youth infatuated with knowledge and with itself been so achingly realized. Then, amazed, Richard Papen is drawn into the ultimate inner circle: five students, worldly and self-assured, selected by a charismatic classics professor to participate in the search for truth and beauty. Together they study the mysteries of ancient Greek culture and spend long weekends at an old country house, reading, boating, basking in an Indian summer that stretches late into autumn.
Mesmerized by his new comrades, Richard is unaware of the crime which they have committed in his dreamy, unwitting presence. But once taken into their confidence, he and the others slowly and inevitably begin to believe in the necessity of murdering the one classmate and friend who might betray both their secret and their future.
Hugely ambitious and compulsively readable, this is a chronicle of deception and complicity, of Dionysian abandon, of innocence corrupted by self-love and moral arrogance; and, finally, it is a story of guilt and responsibility. An astonishing achievement by any standard, The Secret History immediately establishes Donna Tartt as a supremely gifted novelist.