The novel, which Pulitzer Prize winner Donna Tartt wrote over 10 years, is a huge epic canvas about the power of art and how it can change our entire lives - sometimes not in the way we want it to. 13-year-old Theo Decker miraculously survived the explosion that killed his mother. Abandoned by his father, without a single soul in the whole world, he wanders from foster homes and other people's families - from New York to Las Vegas - and his only consolation, which, however, almost leads to his death, is a masterpiece by a Dutch old master that he stole from a museum.
Waking up after an explosion in a museum, Theo Decker receives a ring and a rare painting from a dying old man with the order to steal them from the museum. Theo will snoop around different houses and families - from New York patrons to an old cabinetmaker, from a house in Las Vegas to a hotel room in Amsterdam, and the stolen painting will become both the curse that will drag him to the very bottom and the straw that will help him get out to the light.
Author: Donna Tartt
Translation: Zavozova Anastasia
Publisher: Corpus
Pages: 832
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions : 220x150x45 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-085448-6