The goldfinch and mystery

What a trip! Caution, do not tire and read well to the end. More than 700 pages you will discover various aspects of American society, media "hip" to the mafia manipulation of the art market. Theo, the central character who lives with her trauma after the explosion in a museum, finds orphan. It leaves one with the picture of Goldfinch, a wandering that takes him from New York to Las Vegas, then back to New York and finally to Amsterdam. This wandering led him to sink into drugs but also to discover friendship, the most often impossible love in a mixed world where good and evil coexist. Genuine initiatory path, this novel shows the difficulty of finding meaning in life in an often hostile world, in a society that does not allow the isolated child, and then the young man haunted by his past, to build and to fit into a well-controlled life. There is a kind of prisoner, such as the goldfinch chained in a cage watching the outside world it can never know.
The novel is perhaps a little too long with descriptions that make us into a labyrinth, sometimes we want to be able to more quickly find the exit; but finally we must continue to journey with the author and his multiple characters that raise so many questions and suggest, without their being always aware, responses that help reflection. So, get started in reading that, as in any good novel, is always an adventure that leads back to itself.