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 ...
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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.