The Goldfinch (novel)
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The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The titular painting, The Goldfinch (1654), by Carel Fabritius
Buddhas of Bamiyan
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two monumental Buddhist reliefs in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, carved possibly around the 6th-century. Located 130 kilometres to the northwest of Kabul, at an elevat
The Goldfinch (novel)
…city after the success of The Little Friend. She was partly inspired to write The Goldfinch after hearing about the Taliban's destruction in 2001 of the historic statues of Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. She says: "There was nothing to write about, there was not really a story – but there was an idea that something so beautiful, a light…
Buddha of Bamiyan
Smaller 38 m "Eastern" Buddha of Bamiyan, built between 544 to 595 CE