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Powell's Staff: New Literature in Translation: November 2023 (0 comment)
Here we are, with our final literature in translation round-up of 2023! And what a year it’s been, full of great books from around the world, all enthusiastically recommended by Powell’s booksellers. We’ll be back with a new post in January 2024, but until then, we hope you enjoy these eight new titles, released in November. On this list...
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The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch

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ISBN13: 9780316055444
ISBN10: 0316055441
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2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

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.

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"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

About the Author

Donna Tartt is the author of The Goldfinch, which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her novels The Secret History and The Little Friend have been translated into 30 languages. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College.

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Jeffrey Bluhm , September 16, 2018 (view all comments by Jeffrey Bluhm)
Excellent effort from the apparently infrequently published Donna Tartt. I haven't read anything by her before, and I find myself somewhat puzzlingly fascinated by this book. The protagonist isn't terribly likable, yet the reasons for what flaws he has are entirely understandable, and while he doesn't necessarily rise above them, the ways he tries to address them give him a humanity and a believability that must be the key to his attraction. The description of his hedonistic teens and questionable to illegal adult activities is, to a obligate rule-follower, fascinating, akin to the explanatory expositions in the moves Goodfellas and Casino. And his friend Boris - even with some head-scratching, I can't recall a better buddy character; when he shows up, the pace inevitably accelerates, due solely to his personality. Guess I should check out some other Donna Tartt offerings.

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selective reader , June 18, 2015 (view all comments by selective reader)
What an amazingly well written story that takes you through the many ups and downs of Theo's life after he loses his mother to a major life changing disaster. The focus of the whole book becomes centered on a painting as well as the grief, loss and abuse he suffers along the way. It makes you wonder what you would do and how you would cope were you to lose all your family in such a short period of time especially at such a young age.

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Terpsichore , September 04, 2014 (view all comments by Terpsichore)
What a joy this novel is to read. Tartt weaves a tale that follows Theo from fateful boyhood into adulthood. Beginning with disaster, continuing into adulthood with life punctuated alternately with periods of peace, fear, danger, love, abuse, faithfulness and betrayal. Theo's life is anchored and defined by a painting. The story grabs the reader by the hand almost from the first page. It's the book you can't put down because you are breathless for its end and resolutions yet it is so captivating you want it to never end and rather keep you involved with the characters' lives indefinitely.

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Publication date:
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6.00
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1.25
Author:
Donna Tartt
Subject:
Literature-A to Z

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