The Goldfinch

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The Secret History

The Little Friend

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Contents

Cover

Frontispiece

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

I.

Chapter 1. Boy with a Skull

Chapter 2. The Anatomy Lesson

Chapter 3. Park Avenue

Chapter 4. Morphine Lollipop

II.

Chapter 5. Badr al-Dine

Chapter 6. Wind, Sand and Stars

III.

Chapter 7. The Shop-Behind-the-Shop

Chapter 8. The Shop-Behind-the-Shop, continued

IV.

Chapter 9. Everything of Possibility

Chapter 10. The Idiot

V.

Chapter 11. The Gentleman’s Canal

Chapter 12. The Rendezvous Point

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Do

Newsletters

Copyright

Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2013 by Tay, Ltd.

Cover design by Keith Hayes

Cover detail and frontispiece: The Goldfinch, 1654 (oil on canvas), Carel Fabritius (1622–54), Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands, The Bridgeman Art Library

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ISBN 978-0-316-24867-9