by Penelope Fitzgerald · Fourth Estate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006546252
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«The Golden Child» is Penelope Fitzgerald's first mystery novel, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (160 pages, in English).
A London museum employee, Waring Smith, watches as the opening of the exhibition «The Golden Child» unleashes a criminal intrigue. After an attack, he is sent to Moscow to negotiate with a mysterious curator and becomes trapped in a web of conspiracies, fake artifacts and murder. Fitzgerald tints the classic mystery with irony and satire.
The novel was originally published in 1977; this paperback edition from Fourth Estate is from 2004 and includes an introduction by Charles Saumarez Smith.
For fans of classic-style mystery, British literature and satire set in a museum or artistic environment.
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."
