纽约大都会博物馆发生爆炸，男孩西奥的母亲丧命，十三岁的西奥奇迹般幸存。但由于父亲早已遗弃他们母子，西奥只能寄住在有钱的同学家。陌生的环境令他不知所措，崭新的人际关系令他倍感挫折，但最令他难以忍受的是失去母亲的伤痛。
但他意外拥有了博物馆的名画《金翅雀》。这幅画是他在回忆起母亲时的唯一慰藉，将他带进了幽深黑暗的艺术世界……
成年后的西奥游走在名人画室和自己工作的古董店之间。他并未与这个世界变得亲近，他爱上了一个女孩。他并不知道的是，自己处于一个正在逐渐缩小的危险的圆圈中心。
《金翅雀》由美国著名女作家唐娜•塔特耗费十余年时间创作，一部会让你挑灯夜读、推荐给所有朋友的伟大小说。
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 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 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.
