The Goldfinch
Yellow-winged seed eater
*The Goldfinch* is a 2013 novel by Donna Tartt, following a boy who survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and secretly takes a small Dutch painting—Carel Fabritius's *The Goldfinch* (1654)—which becomes central to his troubled life.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A film adaptation followed in 2019.
- yellowHue between green and orange
- songbirdMelodious perching avian
- feathersBird's lightweight covering
- paintingPigment on canvas
- novelNew and unusual
Donna Tartt · Pulitzer · Pulitzer Prize · theft · museum · art heist · bird · wings · chirping · thistle · seeds · Dutch · masterpiece · Theo · coming of age · Las Vegas · antique furniture · delicate
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- Adapted NovelsHarry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings
- Dutch ArtRembrandt, Dutch painters, Dutch paintings, Vincent van Gogh, Mondrian
- coming-of-agecoming-of-age, bildungsroman, growing up, maturation, youth
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- Psychological FictionCrime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Mrs Dalloway, The Bell Jar, Dostoevsky
The GoldfinchThe Road
Paved travel surface
spare prose · Cormac McCarthy · flash fiction · short story collections
The GoldfinchGone Girl
Departed female
thriller · page-turner · genre fiction · whodunit · beach read
The Goldfinchcanary
Yellow caged songbird
greenfinch · bullfinch · chaffinch · house sparrow · siskin