The Goldfinch (novel)

The Goldfinch
First edition
AuthorDonna Tartt
Cover artistThe painting used on the cover is
The Goldfinch (1654)
by Carel Fabritius
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
PublishedSeptember 23, 2013 (2013-09-23)
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book, audiobook
Pages771
ISBN9781408704950

The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Published in 2013, it followed The Little Friend in 2002.

The Goldfinch follows 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting The Goldfinch.