The GoldFinch by Donna Tartt Book Review
The Goldfinch By Donna Tartt Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Release Year: 2013 Page Count: 900 pages Medium Used: Kindle PW Genre : Coming-of-age, Contemporary, Drama, 2024-read. Rating : 5/5 A compulsive page turner. I was reading so fast and the writing is so vivid, it felt like flying through time and space. I felt the book is a tad too long and at places, too descriptive which could have been shortened. But nonetheless, a very worthy read. I could pick one and very important message out of this book : good can come out of bad actions and bad can result from actions of good intent. And no one can really determine what happens but leaving it all to chance and hoping for the best. A young kid of 12 loses his mother to a bomb blast in a museum in New York. He is one of the survivors and while escaping from the debris and the museum, he steals a random painting. It is the Goldfinch painting by Fabritius, 1654. He comes to associate the painting with the memory of his