El jilguero (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2013: It's hard to articulate just how much--and why-- The Goldfinch held such power for me as a reader.  Always a sucker for a good boy-and-his-mom story, I probably was taken in at first by the cruelly beautiful passages in which 13-year-old Theo Decker tells of the accident that killed his beloved mother and set his fate. But even when the scene shifts--first Theo goes to live with his schoolmate’s picture-perfect (except it isn’t) family on Park Avenue, then to Las Vegas with his father and his trashy wife, then back to a New York antiques shop--I remained mesmerized. Along with Boris, Theo’s Ukrainian high school sidekick, and Hobie, one of the most wonderfully eccentric characters in modern literature, Theo--strange, grieving, effete, alcoholic and often not close to honorable Theo--had taken root in my heart.  Still, The Goldfinch is more than a 700-plus page turner about a tragic loss: it’s also a globe-spanning mystery about a painting that has gone missing, an examination of friendship, and a rumination on the nature of art and appearances. Most of all, it is a sometimes operatic, often unnerving and always moving chronicle of a certain kind of life. “Things would have turned out better if she had lived,” Theo said of his mother, fourteen years after she died. An understatement if ever there was one, but one that makes the selfish reader cry out: Oh, but then we wouldn’t have had this brilliant book! --Sara Nelson

En 1992 Donna Tartt se dio a conocer al gran público con El secreto, una primera novela que sirvió para situar a la autora en las filas de los clásicos contemporáneos. Tras el éxito deslumbrante de aquella propuesta, transcurrieron once años de silencio. Hubo entonces quien pensó que Donna Tartt pasaría a la historia por ser la autora de una sola y magnífica novela, pero a principios de 2003 la gran escritora sureña volvió a triunfar en su país y en toda Europa con Un juego de niños. Ahora, al cabo de otros once años, aparece El jilguero, una nueva novela que la crítica y el público han aplaudido con fervor.