为了逃避来自丈夫、家庭、社会和人群的暴力，她决定变成一棵树 在英惠的丈夫郑先生的眼中， 病 前的英惠，是个再普通不过的女子：不高不矮的个头、不长不短的头发，相貌平平，着装一般，温顺、平淡、文静。正如他所希望的那样，英惠完美地扮演了平凡妻子的角色 料理家务，伺候丈夫，就像千千万万的传统妇女一样。 然而，一场噩梦之后，妻子却突然开始拒绝吃肉，拒绝为家人准备荤菜，甚至到最后，她开始拒绝自己的 人类 身份，把自己当成了一株植物，一株只需要阳光和水，谢绝任何食物和交流的植物。而随着她被动的反叛以越来越极端和可怕的形式表现出来，丑闻、虐待和疏远开始让她螺旋进入她的幻想空间。在精神和身体的完全蜕变中，她现在危险的努力将使英惠 不可能的、狂喜的、悲剧性的 远离她曾经为人所知的自我。
"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
