　　唐娜的這部小說《金翅雀》自從齣版以來，叫座又叫好，不僅還上瞭《紐約時報》等重要媒體的好書榜，長時間盤踞各大暢銷書榜，現又在2014年4月15號拿下普利策小說奬。普利策委員會稱，《金翅雀》是‘一部關於青春期的美文小說，人物刻畫精緻，講述瞭一個傷心男孩與一小幅名畫之間的糾葛'。
　　中文版有望2014年底或2015年初齣版。

內容簡介

Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-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 unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to 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 novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, 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.

作者簡介

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.

　　唐娜·塔特，美國當代著名女作傢。唐娜自1992年起，齣道20多年，隻寫瞭3部長篇小說。《校園秘史》與《小友》間隔10年，震驚文壇。又用瞭11年寫完Goldfinch《金翅雀》，憑此書獲得普利策奬。
　　唐娜·塔特發錶於1992年的處女作《校園秘史》，2007年曾在中國齣版，隻在文學圈內引起少量關注。所以對唐娜·塔特，大多數中國讀者並不熟悉。
　　唐娜齣道20多年，隻寫瞭3部長篇小說。1992年，《校園秘史》震驚文壇，當時唐娜纔28歲。《校園秘史》之後是長達10年的沉寂，唐娜一度被認為是那麼多文學流星中的一顆，結果她在2002年以《小友》迴來瞭，然後是《金翅雀》。
　　唐娜至今未婚，她曾說，“我所認知的地獄，即是擁擠和沉重的傢庭生活。有些人喜歡傢庭生活。但那對我來說是最恐怖的噩夢。”她平時跟外界聯係不多，也不善言辭，拒絕大部分采訪。對圖書界的論壇、朗讀會和頒奬都沒有興趣。得到獲普利策奬的消息後，唐娜說：“非常高興，非常榮幸‘獲得人生中第一個重要文學奬’，也非常驚訝。”

精彩書評

"A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading."
——Michiko Kakutani New York Times

"The Goldfinch is a triumph...Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."
——Stephen King New York Times

"An astonishing achievement... if anyone has lost their love of storytelling, The Goldfinch will most certainly return it to them. The last few pages of the novel take all the serious, big, complicated ideas beneath the surface and hold them up to the light."
—— Guardian

"A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage...Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is."
——Alex O’Connell The Times

"Lavish and lush in décor and span...highly wrought and romantic as her numerous admirers will hope."
——Book of the Week, Boyd Tonkin Independent

精彩書摘

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. Dazzling. A glorious, Dickensian novel that pulls together all Tartt's remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Mysterious and mercurial, The Goldfinch reveals itself as a rare bird: a highbrow fable and a page-turner' Anthony Quinn, Mail on Sunday An astonishing achievement. If anyone has lost their love of storytelling this will most certainly return it to them' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian A triumph.
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