The Goldfinch (El Jilguero) – Donna Tartt

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an abstent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small captivating painting that ultimately draws hin into the criminal underworld.