In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfrenes grows up haunted by the murder of her brother, who was found hanging from a tree in their yard when she was just a baby. Robin''s killer was never identified, and the family has never recovered from the tragedy. Harriet''s father mostly absent, her mother incapacitated by grief, and her teenage sister unable to recall what she saw that terrible day. Harriet lives largely in the world of her imagination, alone even in company, obsessed by Robin who is a link to the happier past she knows from stories and photographs. And then one summer, the year she turns twelve, Harriet decides to find his murderer and exact his revenge. Even more transfixing than its predecessor, "The Little Friend" is a dark novel of lost childhood, breathtaking in its ambition and power, rich in moral paradox and profound insights into human frailty.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 9780747562887
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 22/11/2002
Año de edición: 2002
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt (Mississipi, 1963) és una lectora voraç, domina el llatí, el grec i el francès i pot citar de memòria sant Tomàs, Plató, Buda, Dante, Proust, Poe, Salinger i el seu ídol principal, T.S. Eliot. L’any 1992 es va donar a conèixer amb La història secreta, celebrada unànimement per la crítica i els lectors i considerada ja un clàssic contemporani. Les dues novel·les posteriors, The Little Friend (2002) i The Goldfinch (2013), guanyadora del premi Pulitzer i del National Book Critics Circle Award, l’han consolidat com una de les autores més importants del panorama literari nord-americà.