The Goldfinch

The goldfinch is a novel by the American writer Donna Tartt. The original English title States The Goldfinch but yet the Dutch title in two meanings authentic. First, the book refers to the goldfinchfrom 1654, a painting by the Dutch painter Carel Fabritius, which plays an important role in the story. In addition, the book got in the 2013 world premiere in the Dutch translation, a month earlier than the English original. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 2014.

The writer has ten years worked on the more than 900-page book. Putter is another word for goldfinch (goldfinch). English Tartt processed even more elements in her book, which is set mainly in New York . The main figure who tells his story is called Theo Decker; He is from New York but the crucial moments at the end of the story take place in Amsterdam. Tartt gives quite a bit of New York families Dutch names (Decker, Van der Pleyn Peyster, The, etc.), and makes quite a few references to the Dutch painting (Fabritius, Rembrandt, Hals, Van Gogh,...).

Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.Theo Decker survives a terrorist attack on a museum where his mother and many others lose their lives. His father had abandoned them a few months earlier. At the museum he had noticed a girl of his age, which is very hurt. Also he takes in the confusion a little painting with it. He clogged the and is constantly afraid that the police will apprehend him; He comes not to bring it back. For years, he is overcome by the fear to lose the valuable object, what ultimately will happen. After this initial theft goes with him as a teenager and as a young-adult from bad to worse: truancy at school with a friend (Boris), abuse of alcohol and drugs, drug use, drug dealing, scam, deceit, fraud ... (on the duration becomes a little monotonous). Later, Theo by his friend Boris in the underworld of the art right. When attempting to get the painting back in Amsterdam, he shoots two dangerous criminals dead. The operation fails if another third with the painting is going to run. However, all ultimately good. Boris knows the art thieves and leave the matter to the police indicate. That is indeed the painting on the marked place in Frankfurt, and by surprise a whole series of other stolen works of art. Theo gets from his friend's most of all rewards and thus he makes all his fraud well.

The author let her main character itself make a casual comparison with Dostoevsky's the idiot . There is the main character a righteous man but what he does causes a lot of mischief. Here is the exact opposite.