Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. 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. 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 alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. 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.Тринадцатилетний Тео Декер, сын любящей матери и безрассудного отца, который практически отсутствует в его жизни, чудом остался жив после несчастного случая, кардинально изменившего его дальнейшую жизнь. Богатые родители школьного друга взяли мальчика-сироту на воспитание. Все эти годы его мучает невыносимая тоска по матери, и он не расстаётся с единственной вещью, которая больше всего напоминает ему о ней: с миниатюрной, но необычайно пленительной картиной, которая в конечном счёте вовлечёт мальчика в преступный мир. Повзрослев, Тео скользит между двумя мирами — гостиными богатых и пыльным лабиринтом антикварного магазинчика, где он работает. Он отчужден и влюблен, а его талисман, картина, ведёт его жизнь к центру опасного, сужающегося круга."Щегол" — это захватывающая драма, в которой сочетаются незабываемые яркие персонажи и волнующее напряжение, которое преследует читателя в процессе чтения. Вас ждёт поразительная история об утрате и одержимости, о выживании и обретении себя, о глубочайших тайнах любви, личности и судьбы.
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. 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. 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 alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. 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.Trinadtsatiletniy Teo Deker, syn lyubyashchey materi i bezrassudnogo ottsa, kotoryy prakticheski otsutstvuet v ego zhizni, chudom ostalsya zhiv posle neschastnogo sluchaya, kardinalno izmenivshego ego dalneyshuyu zhizn. Bogatye roditeli shkolnogo druga vzyali malchika-sirotu na vospitanie. Vse eti gody ego muchaet nevynosimaya toska po materi, i on ne rasstayetsya s edinstvennoy veshchyu, kotoraya bolshe vsego napominaet emu o ney: s miniatyurnoy, no neobychayno plenitelnoy kartinoy, kotoraya v konechnom schyete vovlechyet malchika v prestupnyy mir. Povzroslev, Teo skolzit mezhdu dvumya mirami gostinymi bogatykh i pylnym labirintom antikvarnogo magazinchika, gde on rabotaet. On otchuzhden i vlyublen, a ego talisman, kartina, vedyet ego zhizn k tsentru opasnogo, suzhayushchegosya kruga."SHCHegol" eto zakhvatyvayushchaya drama, v kotoroy sochetayutsya nezabyvaemye yarkie personazhi i volnuyushchee napryazhenie, kotoroe presleduet chitatelya v protsesse chteniya. Vas zhdyet porazitelnaya istoriya ob utrate i oderzhimosti, o vyzhivanii i obretenii sebya, o glubochayshikh taynakh lyubvi, lichnosti i sudby.