The Little Friend

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

BestseUing author Donna Tartt returns with 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 Yoi\ Times BooJ{ Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
"At times humorous, at times... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

BestseUing author Donna Tartt returns with 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 Yoi\ Times BooJ{ Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
"At times humorous, at times heartbreaking. The Little Friend is most surprising when it is edge-of-the-seat scary." —USA Today
"Harriet [is] one of the most engaging and rounded characters you are likely to find. . . . Tartt's writing: gorgeous, fluent, visual." —The Times (London)
Languidly atmospheric . . . psychologically acute. A rich novel that takes you somewhere worth going." —The New Yorker
. . . . Tartt etches each of these characters with indelible assurance." —Newswee\ Vissza