At the start of Donna Tartt's third novel, her hero Theo Decker is 13 years old. His mother-adored and adoring, artistic, thrift-shop glamorous-has taken him to see her favourite painting, a small miracle of 17th-century Dutch art. Carel Fabritius's picture (below) gives the book its title, "The Goldfinch", and in the opening scene it is hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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