Donna Tartt

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century. 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 schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. 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 mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

""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" 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.

BESTSELLER INTERNACIONAL - Un cl sico contempor neo de la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y autora de El jilguero. No es f cil ir haciendo amigos en una universidad 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 peque o grupo de cinco estudiantes capitaneados por un profesor de literatura cl sica con mucho carisma y pocos escr pulos. Los chicos sueltan comentarios en griego y se r en de la ingenuidad y la torpeza de los dem s, pero bien mirado se pasan el d a bebiendo y engullendo pastillas, hasta que un mal d a las que parec an chiquilladas se convierten en palabras mayores. Solo entonces Richard y su pandilla descubren qu dif cil es vivir sin m scaras y qu f cil es matar sin remordimientos. En El secreto, la primera novela de Donna Tartt, se unen la tensi n de la novela psicol gica, el ritmo de un thriller y la cr nica de una juventud que pide demasiado a la vida sin saber bien qu entregar a cambio. El resultado es una obra que se cuenta entre las mejores del siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch. 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 and how easy it is to kill.

Hos familien Cleve taler man om alt, alt undtagen Robin. Familien var i færd med at forberede middagen til Mors dag den skæbnesvangre dag for tolv år siden: Charlotte kaldte på barnet, men Robin kom ikke. Det var nabokonen, der opdagede ham - hængende kvalt ude i haven. De uklare omstændigheder omkring drengens død kaster tunge skygger over slægten. Det sønderknuste hjem passes af den sorte stuepige Ida, mens Robins mor og mellemste søster bevæger sig søvngængeragtigt mellem seng og sofa. Da Robin døde var Harriet nyfødt, men nu er hun en stædig tolvårig. Med sin bedste ven Hely på slæb beslutter Harriet sig for på egen hånd at undersøge sin storebrors død. Med sin afdækning af en families længsel og sorg har Donna Tartte skrevet en ambitiøs og atmosfærefyldt sydstatsroman fyldt med inidsigtsfulde, nuancerede portrætter. ‘Den lille ven’ er en skræmmende skildring af det at vokse op og forstå menneskers overlevelsesmekanismer.

Den 19 år gamle Richard Papen kommer ind i en elitær og eksklusiv kreds af græskstuderende på et college i Vermont. De er rige, unge og skruppelløse. De bliver ledet af en mystisk lærer og dyrker den klassiske græske kultur og begynder at føre studierne over i virkeligheden i dionysiske orgier. Et gammelt ritual bringes brutalt til live med fatale konsekvenser. Venskaber, moral og underbevidshedens gode og dårlige sider er blandt emnerne i Donna Tartts imponerende psykologiske gyser om en forbrydelse og dens konsekvenser. "’Den hemmelige historie’ er selvfølgelig umiddelbart en spændende roman om forbrydelse, skyld og straf. Men den handler i virkeligheden også om et af de græske begreber, som der jongleres elegant og næsten pralende med: Om det hybris, de hovmodige begår, når de nærmer sig gudernes stadie. Og om det nemesis, som derfor straffer dem på liv, krop og sjæl." - Berlingske

Donna Tartt's phenomenally acclaimed new novel.

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, 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 schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. 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 mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

”Charlotte Cleve skulle under återstoden av sitt liv förebrå sig själv för sin sons död därför att hon hade beslutat att servera morsdagsmiddagen klockan sex på kvällen i stället för mitt på dagen, efter kyrkan, då familjen Cleve i normala fall åt den.” Så inleds Den lille vännen. Efter Robins död lägger sig en förlamande stämning över släkten. I familjen Cleve talar man nämligen om allt, allt utom Robin. Man höll på att förbereda morsdagsfesten den där ödesdigra dagen för tolv år sedan, Charlotte ropade in barnen men Robin kom inte. Det var grannfrun som upptäckte honom, hängande strypt ute i trädgården på baksidan. När det skedde var Harriet nyfödd men nu har hon hunnit bli en kavat tolvåring. Det sargade hemmet sköts av den svarta husan Ida medan mamma Charlotte och mellansystern Allison sömngångaraktigt rör sig mellan sängar och soffa, ovilliga att delta i den vardagliga verkligheten. Harriet får sköta sig själv, på gott och ont. Med bästa kompisen Hely i släptåg bestämmer sig Harriet för att på egen hand undersöka sin storebrors död. Den lille vännen är skriven i den djupt rotade traditionen av amerikanska sydstatsromaner och är fylld av insiktsfulla, mångbottnade porträtt. Det är en skrämmande och stark skildring av att växa upp och tvingas förstå människors överlevnadsmekanismer.” Det är en fullödig berättelse med starka personporträtt och miljöskildringar, bisarra händelser, relationsproblem och en spännande underton, som gör att man vill sträckläsa sig fram till den dramatiska upplösningen.” Smålands-Tidningen ”… en insiktsfull och vemodig betraktelse över barndomens rika värld som till sist måste ge vika för en mörk och grå och inte sällan farlig vuxenverklighet.” Svenska Dagbladet ”Den lille vännen är för läsaren ren njutning.” Katrineholms Kuriren ”… omtumlande, fascinerande och stark.” Dagbladet ”… en bok som på en gång är en varm barndomsskildring, spännande äventyrsroman, bister familjekrönika och vass samhällsskildring.” Smålandsposten ”När man väl har fastnat, forsar man igenom denna roman, som om det vore en bok av Dickens eller Tolstoj, dragen som av en magnet mot den slutliga upplösningen.” Sunday Telegraph ”Donna Tartt har total kontroll över sitt material när hon blandar spänning, karaktärsstudier och den sociala sydstatsmiljön... Den lille vännen lyser av känslomässig insikt, Donna Tartt har talang för det komiska i tillvaron och en säker känsla för berättardrive. Klokt nog undviker romanen en lycklig upplösning. I stället är den en oändligt tillfredsställande läsupplevelse.” Publishers Weekly

Blestjaschaja amerikanskaja pisatelnitsa Donna Tartt, laureat Pulittserovskoj premii 2014 goda, pokorila chitatelej pervym zhe svoim romanom "Tajnaja istorija". Kniga srazu stala bestsellerom. Ona perevedena na dvadtsat pjat jazykov i prodolzhaet raskhoditsja mnogomillionnymi tirazhami vo vsem mire. Dejstvie proiskhodit v nebolshom kolledzhe v Vermonte, kuda devjatnadtsatiletnij Richard Pejpen priezzhaet izuchat drevnegrecheskij jazyk. Novye druzja Richarda - chetvero molodykh ljudej i odna devushka - umny, raskovanny, bogaty i tak uvlecheny antichnoj kulturoj, chto rassmatrivajut sebja chut li ne kak osobuju kastu ee khranitelej. Ikh druzhba ne vyderzhivaet, odnako, natiska sovremennogo mira. V veseloj i splochennoj kompanii proiskhodit ubijstvo. Pytajas cherez mnogo let osmyslit sluchivsheesja, geroj po dnjam vosproizvodit svoju studencheskuju zhizn, etapy otnoshenij s odnokursnikami i ljubimoj devushkoj. Pod virtuoznym perom Donny Tartt ego ispoved prevraschaetsja v zakhvatyvajuschij psikhologicheskij triller. Perevodchiki: Denis Borodkin, Natalja Lentsman

_______________ ‘In a literary age of diet and dearth, Tartt invites us to feast ... the opening tragedy strikes a note of rich, flamboyant Southern Gothic that resonates throughout' - Independent ‘You will rarely have read better ... Because of Tartt's mastery of suspense, this book will grip readers all the way through to its bitter end' - Guardian ‘Destined to become a special kind of classic - a book that precocious young readers pluck from their parents' shelves and devour with surreptitious eagerness, thrilled to discover a writer who seems at once to read their minds and to offer up the sweet-and-sour fruits of exotic, forbidden knowledge' - New York Times Book Review _______________ Donna Tartt's huge selling second novel, follow up to the worldwide bestseller The Secret History The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, rose the water tower, its surface all washed out by the sun. Harriet, cautiously, stepped towards it in the weedy clearing. Around and around it she walked, around the rusted metal legs. One day is never, ever discussed by the Cleve family. The day that nine-year-old Robin was found hanging by the neck from a tree in their front garden. Twelve years later the family are no nearer to uncovering the truth of what happened to him. Inspired by Houdini and Robert Louis Stevenson, twelve-year-old Harriet sets out to find her brother’s murderer – and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. "A remarkably powerful novel and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled." --The New York Times

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. - "Destined to become a special kind of classic." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe 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 and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town's rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family's history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and "a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens" (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.

THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE 'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. 'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times 'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian 'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times