The daughter of Don and Taylor Tartt, she was born in Greenwood, Mississippi but raised 32 miles away in Grenada, Mississippi. Her novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014. Tartt was the 2003 winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend. 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.ĭonna Tartt is an American writer who received critical acclaim for her first two novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. 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 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. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. In the book, the depressed Theo ultimately decides to turn himself in to Dutch police for his crimes when Boris shows up and stops him. In the movie, Theo goes through with a suicide attempt, and Boris bursts through the hotel door to rescue his overdosing friend.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014Īged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. In the book, the guilt-ridden adult Boris tracks Theo down in New York City and confesses that he stole "The Goldfinch" (and replaced it with a school book), then lost the painting. In the movie, the two bump into each other at a Russian bar in New York by coincidence and he confesses.Ī bigger change comes after Theo waits for Boris for weeks in an Amsterdam hotel after their botched attempt to take the painting back from local criminals. The relationship between the Ukrainian-born Boris Pavlikovsky (played by Finn Wolfhard as a high schooler and Aneurin Barnard as an adult) and Theo (young Oakes Fegley and Elgort) is a model of true friendship enduring under unusual circumstances and a lot of drugs.
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