Donna Tartt Book order (chronological)

No es fácil hacer amigos en una universidad de Nueva Inglaterra siendo un chico modesto y falto de afecto que llega de California. Richard Papen lo sabe y agradece ser admitido en un pequeño grupo de cinco estudiantes liderados por un carismático profesor de literatura clásica. Los chicos, que se ríen de la ingenuidad de los demás y sueltan comentarios en griego, pasan su tiempo bebiendo y consumiendo pastillas. Sin embargo, lo que parecía ser solo diversión se convierte en algo más serio. Richard y su grupo pronto descubren lo complicado que es vivir sin máscaras y lo fácil que es matar sin remordimientos. La novela combina la tensión psicológica, el ritmo de un thriller y la crónica de una juventud que anhela demasiado sin saber qué ofrecer a cambio. El resultado es una obra que se destaca entre las mejores del siglo XX. La historia de estos estudiantes excéntricos, influenciados por su profesor, revela un mundo alejado de la vida común, donde cruzar las fronteras de la moralidad transforma sus vidas para siempre. La narrativa explora las complejidades de la vida y la muerte, dejando una profunda huella en sus personajes.

Theodore Decker a 13 ans quand sa vie bascule : alors qu'il visite une exposition au Metropolitan de New York avec sa mère, qui attire son attention sur Le Chardonneret, exquise représentation de l'oiseau par Carel Fabritius, élève de Rembrandt et inspirateur de Vermeer -, un attentat à la bombe pulvérise le musée. Theo s'en sort, pas sa mère. Choqué, hagard, il subtilise le fameux tableau, miraculeusement préservé. Le cours de son existence y sera lié à jamais. D'abord accueilli dans la riche famille d'un ami de lycée, le garçon est sommé de suivre son père, un alcoolique qui ne s'est jamais occupé de lui, dans un quartier glauque de Las Vegas. Puis, de retour à New York après la mort brutale de son père, Theo va prendre contact avec un antiquaire de Greenwich et s'immerger dans le milieu des trafiquants d'art - dissimulant toujours son précieux talisman...

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE "The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

Un piccolo raffinato college nel Vermont. Cinque ragazzi ricchi e viziati e il loro insegnante di greco antico, un esteta che esercita sugli allievi una forte seduzione spirituale. A loro si aggiunge un giovane piccolo borghese squattrinato. In pigri weekend consumati tra gli stordimenti di alcol, droga e sottili giochi d'amore, torna a galla il ricordo di un crimine di inaudita violenza. Per nascondere il quale è ora necessario commeterne un altro ancora più spietato...

16 nouvelles inédites par les maîtres du suspense américain.

The eagerly awaited second novel from the author of The Secret History

This is an anthology of fiction, by those who began publishing in the 1990s. The authors include Terry McMillan, Mark Leyner, Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Watkins, William Vollman, Darcey Steinke and Dorothy Alison.

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return.