Arjaan van Nimwegen Libros

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 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.

When the construction of their dream cabin on an isolated Alaskan island is interrupted by an early Arctic winter, Gary and Irene find their marriage unraveling as they become stranded with their daughter, Rhoda, who watches helplessly as her parents drift further apart.

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, commits suicide on the deck of his boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood. Finally, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.

Un da̕ de invierno, Anna Kerrigan, una nią de apenas doce aǫs, acompaą a su padre a una mansin̤ de Manhattan Beach, delante del mar, en el barrio neoyorquino de Brooklyn. Su propietario es Dexter Styles, un hombre que ella intuye crucial para la supervivencia de su padre y de su familia. Ese encuentro la marcar ̀para siempre, tanto por la fascinacin̤ que le despertar ̀el mar como por el misterio latente que percibe entre los dos hombres. Aǫs ms̀ tarde, su padre desaparece sin dar explicaciones y el pas̕ entra en guerra.