Donna Tartt

In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler

30 ANIVERSARIOPOR LA AUTORA DE EL JILGUERO, GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER "La historia del misterioso asesinato que sigue fascinando treinta años despues."BBC "Una autentica maravilla. [...] Contundente, solida e impecablemente contada."The New York Times"Donna Tartt es una escritora increiblemente buena: profunda, sugerente. Una narradora extraordinaria."Stephen King UNO DE LOS 18 MEJORES LIBROS DE MISTERIO SEGUN ESQUIRE La vida no es facil en un college de Nueva Inglaterra si eres un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California, y Richard Papen lo sabe; por eso agradece que lo admitan en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes capitaneados por un profesor de literatura clasica con mucho carisma y pocos escrupulos. Los chicos sueltan comentarios en griego y se rien de la ingenuidad y la torpeza de los demas, pero bien mirado se pasan el dia bebiendo y engullendo pastillas. Hasta que un mal dia lo que parecian chiquilladas adquieren una gravedad inesperada.Es entonces cuando Richard y su pandilla descubren que dificil es vivir sin mascaras y que facil es matar sin remordimientos. El secr

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 store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

EL PRIMER CLÁSICO DEL SIGLO XXI, PREMIO PULITZER MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN TODO EL MUNDO «El jilguero es una de esas rarezas que aparecen pocas veces, una novela literaria escritac

30 ANIVERSARIOPOR LA AUTORA DE EL JILGUERO, GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER "La historia del misterioso asesinato que sigue fascinando treinta años despues."BBC "Una autentica maravilla. [...] Contundente, solida e impecablemente contada."The New York Times"Donna Tartt es una escritora increiblemente buena: profunda, sugerente. Una narradora extraordinaria."Stephen King UNO DE LOS 18 MEJORES LIBROS DE MISTERIO SEGUN ESQUIRE La vida no es facil en un college de Nueva Inglaterra si eres un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California, y Richard Papen lo sabe; por eso agradece que lo admitan en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes capitaneados por un profesor de literatura clasica con mucho carisma y pocos escrupulos. Los chicos sueltan comentarios en griego y se rien de la ingenuidad y la torpeza de los demas, pero bien mirado se pasan el dia bebiendo y engullendo pastillas. Hasta que un mal dia lo que parecian chiquilladas adquieren una gravedad inesperada.Es entonces cuando Richard y su pandilla descubren que dificil es vivir sin mascaras y que facil es matar sin remordimientos. El secr

La determinación de una niña de doce años por llegar al fondo del crimen que se llevó a su hermano cuando ella era solo un bebé. La novela que demostró que Donna Tartt tenía mucho más que decir. De

Richard Papen stammt aus einfachen Verhaltnissen. Als er durch ein Stipendium das College besuchen kann, ist er gleich fasziniert von der ihm fremden Welt. Besonders zieht ihn eine Gruppe junger Studenten in den Bann, mit denen er nicht nur Griechisch lernt, sondern auch dem taglichen Alkohol huldigt. Doch bald spurt er, dass unter der Oberflache unerschutterlicher Freundschaft Spannungen lauern und dass ein furchtbares Geheimnis seine Freunde belastet - ein Geheimnis, das auch ihn mehr und mehr in seinen dunklen, morderischen Sog zieht.

Qui est Theo ? Que lui est-il arrivé à New York pour qu'il soit aujourd'hui, quatorze ans plus tard, cloîtré dans une chambre d'hôtel à Amsterdam comme une bête traquée ? Qu'est deven

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 store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return ...

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of "The Secret History" is "an elegant, edifying work of art" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Even more transfixingly suspenseful than its predecessor, this is a dark work of lost childhood, rich in moral paradox, as a 12-year-old Mississippi girl sets out to find her brother's murderer.

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of "The Secret History" is "an elegant, edifying work of art" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Even more transfixingly suspenseful than its predecessor, this is a dark work of lost childhood, rich in moral paradox, as a 12-year-old Mississippi girl sets out to find her brother's murderer.

Esta prodigiosa escritora debutó con una novela llamada El secreto. Tanto en aquel libro como en este el lector se adentra en una lectura de gran suspense. Esta novela habla de los secretos familiares y de las dificultades de una niña de sobrellevar la mediocridad de los adultos. El largo recorrido hacia una vida con significado.

Als Theo Decker dreizehn Jahre alt ist, verliert er seine Mutter durch ein tragisches Ungluck. Er versinkt in tiefer Trauer.Auch das Gemalde, das verbotenerweise in seinem Besitz ist und ihn an seine Mutter erinnert, kann ihm keinen Trost spenden. Ganz im Gegenteil: Mit jedem Jahr, das vergeht, kommt er immer weiter von seinem Weg ab und droht, in kriminelle Kreise abzurutschen.Es scheint geradezu, als wurde ihn das Gemalde, das ihn auf merkwurdige Weise fasziniert, in eine Welt der Lugen und falschen Entscheidungen ziehen, in einen Sog, der ihn unaufhaltsam mit sich reit ...

Le talent de Donna Tartt est de conter une histoire haletante grâce à une technique de narration implacable mais aussi d'en faire une fresque historique et politique sans jamais insister.(Christine Ferniot - Télérama,12/11/2003)