The Goldfinch

　　暢銷經典《The Secret History》作者唐娜‧塔特令人戰慄的重量級新作！

　　13歲的少年Theo Decker驚險地從大都會博物館爆炸意外中死裡逃生，同行的母親卻不幸罹難，幸好家境富裕的好友伸出援手，讓舉目無親的Theo搬進紐約公園大道的豪宅一同生活。這場意外讓Theo痛失慈愛的母親，也使他對於荷蘭名畫「金翅雀」產生了特別的情感。

　　成年之後，Theo在上流人家的畫室與遍佈灰塵的古玩店間穿梭，「金翅雀」與他的關係越來越密不可分，就像是兩棵交纏的樹木，將彼此深深捲入危險的黑暗之中，究竟母親的死，是意外，還是蓄意的殺害……

　　唐娜‧塔特以其大師級的敘事功力帶來這部讓人繃緊神經的精彩作品，書中角色形象鮮明，對白暗藏機鋒，彷彿是一個哲學家冷靜清晰地將這段關於友情、自我認同與遺失畫作的懸疑故事娓娓道來，讓所有人聽得如痴如醉，無法自拔。（文／博客來編譯）

　　The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel.

　　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.