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Jak daleko można się posunąć, by oszukać los?Theo Decker cudem ratuje się z wybuchu. Z ruin muzeum wykrada niewielki, dziwnie fascynujący obraz. Ulubiony obraz matki, którą stracił w zamachu.Szczygieł będzie towarzyszył Theo w podróży: od ekskluzywnych apartamentów przy Park Avenue po rozpustę półświatka w Las Vegas. Przez zakurzony labirynt podupadającego nowojorskiego antykwariatu po ciemne zakątki Amsterdamu. Obraz, który początkowo jest dla Theo bezcennym skarbem, z czasem sprowadzi go do podziemia handlarzy sztuką i sprawi, że Theo znajdzie się w samym środku...

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prizefor hermost recent novel, "The Goldfinch," established herself as a major talent with "The Secret" "History, " which has become acontemporary classic.
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...

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 for ever.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques...

Richard Papen rozpoczyna naukę w ekskluzywnym collegeu w Nowej Anglii. Dołącza do grupy inteligentnych, ekscentrycznych studentów filologii klasycznej, którzy pod wodzą charyzmatycznego wykładowcy odkrywają sposób myślenia i życia niemający nic wspólnego z monotonną egzystencją ich rówieśników. Kiedy jednak eksperymenty z narkotykami, alkoholem i seksualnością nie przynoszą odpowiedzi na pytanie: jak daleko można się posunąć? dochodzi do morderstwa. Czy da się uniknąć jego konsekwencji? Czy można zabić i nie zostać ukaranym? I czy możliwe jest, by morderstwo w...

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.

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...

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...

The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is 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...

A follow up to the "The Secret History".