Audiobooks by Donna Tartt

EL PRIMER CLÁSICO DEL SIGLO XXI, PREMIO PULITZER MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN TODO EL MUNDO «El jilguero es una de esas rarezas que aparecen pocas veces, una novela literaria escrita con audacia, que conecta con las emociones del lector. Un triunfo.» Stephen King, The New York Times Al empezar El jilguero vamos enfocando una habitación de hotel en Amsterdam. Theo Decker lleva más de una semana encerrado entre esas cuatro paredes, fumando sin parar, bebiendo vodka y masticando miedo. Es un hombre joven, pero su historia es larga y ni él sabe muy bien por qué ha llegado hasta aquí. ¿Cómo empezó todo? Con una explosión en el Metropolitan Museum hace unos diez años y la imagen de un jilguero de plumas doradas, un cuadro espléndido del siglo XVII que desapareció entre el polvo y los cascotes. Quien se lo llevó fue el mismo Theo, un chiquillo entonces, que de pronto se quedó huérfano de madre y se dedicó a desgastar su vida: las drogas lo arañaron, la indiferencia del padre lo cegó y sus amistades le condujeron a la delincuencia. Su historia tuvo la ocasión de llegar a su final, en el desierto de Nevada, pero no. Al cabo de un tiempo, otra vez las calles de Manhattan, una pequeña tienda de anticuario y un bulto sospechoso que va pasando de mano en mano hasta llegar a Holanda. ¿Cómo acabará todo? Para saberlo hay que dejarse llevar por el talento de Donna Tartt, la autora que ha conseguido poner al día las reglas de los grandes maestros del siglo xix, siguiendo a Dickens pero también a los personajes de Breaking Bad, y aquí está El jilguero, probablemente el primer clásico del siglo XXI . La crítica ha dicho... «Una novela bellamente escrita, con un exquisito dibujo de personajes y por estimular la mente a la vez que toca el corazón.» Jurado del Premio Pulitzer «El jilguero es una de esas rarezas que aparecen pocas veces, una novela literaria escrita con audacia, que conecta con las emociones del lector. Un triunfo.» Stephen King, The New York Times «Un libro inmenso desde todos los puntos de vista. Dickens con pistolas, Dostoievski con anfetaminas, Tolstói en el mundo de los anticuarios y los marchantes de arte.» The Times «Una novela rápida, ágil, sorprendente y muy estudiada que te arrastra como una locomotora descarrilada hasta la última página. Audaz, valiente y que conecta con el lector.» Rosa Martí, Esquire «El jilguero permite el reencuentro con el placer febril de leer.» Antonio Lozano, La Vanguardia «Tartt pone en marcha una maquinaria narrativa de aliento dickensiano que, una vez más, ha conseguido poner en vilo a millones de lectores.» Eduardo Lago, El País «Una novela que leí muy despacio, haciéndola durar porque no quería que se terminara. Es difícil definir de qué se trata porque mezcla thriller con novela de iniciación. Uno avanza en la lectura y acompaña al personaje principal.» Yanina Rosenberg, WMagazín «Una historia inmensa.» Inés Martín Rodrigo, ABCultural «No se trata solo de suspense y de intriga... Donna Tartt ha creado una novela gloriosa, que nos devuelve el placer intenso y compulsivo de la lectura.» Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Una obra que debería ser estudiada en los talleres que se dedican a la creación literaria. [...] El Jilguero es el mejor ejemplo de cómo escribir una novela. [...] Una joya.» Berta Lucia Estrada Estrada, El Espectador

Donna Tartt (Author), Diego Rousselon (Narrator)

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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE "The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

Donna Tartt (Author), David Pittu (Narrator)

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The Secret History

Penguin Audiobooks presents Donna Tartt's cult thriller The Secret History, unabridged, downloadable and read by the author herself. A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return ... The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hear

Donna Tartt (Author), Donna Tartt (Narrator)

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The Secret History

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. In this brilliant debut novel, Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance. Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable. Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another ... a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brough to brutal life ... and lead to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning ...

Donna Tartt (Author), Donna Tartt (Narrator)

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The Little Friend

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who when she was only a baby was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard. His killer was never identified, nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy.For Harriet, who has grown up largely unsupervised, in a world of her own imagination, her brother is a link to a glorious past she has only heard stories about or glimpsed in photograph albums. Fiercely determined, precocious far beyond her twelve years, and steeped in the adventurous literature of Stevenson, Kipling, and Conan Doyle, she resolves, one summer, to solve the murder and exact her revenge. Harriet's sole ally in this quest, her friend Hely, is devoted to her, but what they soon encounter has nothing to do with child's play: it is dark, adult, and all too menacing.A revelation of familial longing and sorrow, The Little Friend explores crime and punishment, as well as the hidden complications and consequences that hinder the pursuit of truth and justice. A novel of breathtaking ambition and power, it is rich in moral paradox, insights into human frailty, and storytelling brilliance.From the Hardcover edition.

Donna Tartt (Author), Donna Tartt (Narrator)

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The Little Friend

The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin's sister Harriet-unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town's rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family's history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and "a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens" (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Donna Tartt (Author), Karen White (Narrator)

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