- Fiction, general, Friendship, fiction, Death, Brothers
A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and spare.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Donna Tartt
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 616
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print, Knopf, Kineret
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- Spanish, Dutch, English, French
- ISBN
- 9783442306688
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“Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened.”
Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her novel The Goldfinch.
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