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The Goldfinch

Cover of The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt

In this literary novel, a 13-year-old-boy survives a terrorist explosion at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which kills his mother.  He then finds himself the owner of a seventeenth century Dutch painting called “The Goldfinch,” and drawn into the dark and mysterious underworld of art dealing. 

Author category: 
Female Author
Date of publication: 
2013