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.

唐娜•塔特（Donna Tartt）

美国当代著名女作家，1963年出生，在密西西比州格林纳达长大，五岁时写了人生第一首诗，十三岁时发表了第一首十四行诗。1981年就读密西西比大学，后转学至贝林顿学院。大一时就因写作才能受到注意，被著名作家巴里•汉纳收入其短篇小说课程研究生班。汉纳称其为“难得一见的天才，文学之星”。

唐娜•塔特平均每十多年才完成一部作品，迄今只出版了三部长篇小说：《校园秘史》《小友》和《金翅雀》。这三部作品均颇受好评，畅销长销，版权售出三十余国家和地区，奠定了她在文学界的地位。2014年，塔特入选《时代》杂志“年度最具影响力的一百位人物”。

塔特认为，雕琢句子——正确的词，适当的比喻——是写作带给人的最深层次的满足。写作是一种“沉浸式的体验”，写一本让自己沉迷的书，可以进入一个迥异的世界。

《金翅雀》是唐娜•塔特的第三部作品，在上一部作品《小友》出版十一年后面世，横扫全球多国畅销榜单，获得普利策小说奖和其他多项荣誉。