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The Goldfinch is the third novel by American author Donna Tartt. Published in 2013, it was Tartt’s first novel since the publication of The Little Friend in 2002.The Goldfinch won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors.

The novel is a Bildungsroman told in the first person by Theodore Decker who, at the age of 13, survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum in which his beloved mother dies. Staggering out through the debris, he takes with him a small, Dutch Golden Age painting, The Goldfinch, which will serve as a singular source of hope as he descends into a world of crime.

The painting is one of the few surviving works by Rembrandt’s most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius; nearly all of Fabritius’ oeuvre was destroyed in the Delft explosion of 1654, in which the artist himself was killed.