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A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. Show more Show less

The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz - outre rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbour," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen's controversial l996 investigation of the fate of the American novel in what became known as "the Harper's essay," as well as his award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and a rueful account of his brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.

The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator.

Die junge Pip Tyler wei nicht, wer ihr Vater ist. Das ist keineswegs ihr einziges Problem: Sie hat Studienschulden, ihr Burojob in Oakland ist eine Sackgasse, sie liebt einen verheirateten Mann, und ihre Mutter erdruckt sie mit Liebe und Geheimniskramerei. Pip wei weder, wo und wann sie geboren wurde, noch kennt sie den wirklichen Namen und Geburtstag ihrer Mutter. Als ihr eines Tages eine Deutsche beim Sunlight Project des Whistleblowers Andreas Wolf ein Praktikum anbietet, hofft sie, dass der ihr mit seinem Internet-Journalismus bei der Vatersuche helfen kann. Sie stellt ihre Mutter vor die Wahl: Entweder sie luftet das Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft, oder Pip macht sich auf nach Bolivien, wo Andreas Wolf im Schutz einer paradiesischen Bergwelt sein Enthullungswerk vollbringt. Und wenig spater bricht sie auf.Unschuld, eine tiefschwarze Komodie uber jugendlichen Idealismus, malose Treue und den Kampf zwischen den Geschlechtern, handelt von Schuld in den unterschiedlichsten Facetten: Andreas Wolf, in Ost-Berlin als Sohn eines hochrangigen DDR-Politfunktionars geboren, hat aus Liebe zu einer Frau vor Jahren ein Verbrechen begangen; ein Amerikaner, dem er in den Wirren des Berliner Mauerfalls begegnet, hat den Kinderwunsch seiner Frau nicht erfullt und sie dann verlassen; dessen neue Lebensgefahrtin kann ihrem Ehemann, der im Rollstuhl sitzt, nicht den Rucken kehren und pflegt ihn weiter ... In diesem fulminanten amerikanisch-deutschen Gesellschaftsroman eines der groten, sprachmachtigsten Autoren unserer Zeit uberschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Und bannen den Leser bis zum Schluss.

La giovane Purity Tyler, detta Pip, non conosce la sua vera identita.Sua madre, per un motivo misterioso, non vuole rivelarle chi e suo padre, l'uomo dal quale e fuggita prima che Pip nascesse, cambiando nome e ritirandosi a vivere nell'anonimato tra i boschi della California settentrionale. Pip e povera: ha un pesante debito studentesco da ripagare e vive in una casa occupata a Oakland, frequentata da un gruppo di anarchici.Ed e proprio li che incontra Annagret, un'attivista tedesca che le apre le porte di uno stage con il Sunlight Project, l'organizzazione fondata dal famoso e carismatico Andreas Wolf, un leaker rivale di Julian Assange, allo scopo di rivelare i segreti dei potenti. Pip parte per la Bolivia, dove ha sede il Sunlight Project, con la speranza di poter usare la tecnologia degli hacker per svelare il segreto dell'identita di suo padre.Ma l'incontro con Andreas Wolf si rivela sconvolgente per molti motivi. Anche Andreas ha un terribile segreto nascosto nel suo passato, negli anni in cui viveva a Berlino Est come figlio ribelle di una madre squilibrata e di un padre pezzo grosso del Partito Comunista. Lo rivela proprio a Pip, con la quale instaura una relazione intensa e morbosa.Forse i suoi moventi segreti sono legati a Tom Aberant, il giornalista di Denver per il quale Pip andra a lavorare dopo lo stage con il Sunlight Project, destabilizzando la relazione di Tom con la sua compagna Leila e portando un grande sconvolgimento anche nelle loro vite...

A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century.Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today.Recalling his student days, the celebrated author of The Corrections and Freedom recounts his discovery of Kraus and presents his own translations and annotations of the philosophers most famous essays.A pioneer of self-publishing, Kraus brilliantly attacked the mass media and the dehumanizing machinery of technology and capitalism. A notoriously difficult writer, Kraus has met his match in Franzen: a popular novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions. In the extensive footnotes Franzen explains why Kraus is relevant today while also revealing his own intellectual and personal preoccupations.Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought and literature.

La familia Lambert es una familia como las otras: detrás de su aparente buena naturaleza a veces se esconden los deseos inconfesables ... Desde lágrimas en reconciliaciones, Enid, Alfred, y sus tres hijos tratan de dar sentido a sus contradicciones. Y si no nacieron para corregir los errores de sus padres? Una saga con una feroz humor, cuyo poder barre todo a su paso.

Esta nueva obra de un maestro americano del realismo tiene placeres novelescos en abundancia y personajes creíbles. Purity es una gran historia de idealismo de juventud y extrema fidelidad. Publicado en Septiembre de 2015, llega ahora en formato bolsillo.

Jonathan Franzens new novel Purity due out next autumn.Purity has been described as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler who doesnt know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pips family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower.

Jonathan Franzens new novel Purity due out next autumn.Purity has been described as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler who doesnt know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pips family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower.

Young Pip Tyler doesnt know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that shes saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother―her only family―is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how shell ever have a normal life. It takes a seemingly chance encounter with two visitors from Germany to send Pip―and the reader―on a journey of discovery that ranges from Stasi-era East Berlin to a rainforest in Bolivia; and from the ancient war between the sexes to the present-day bewilderments of the Internet. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder―the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.

Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years 'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph 'Crossroads is the spiritual successor to The Corrections . .. It is a testament to Franzen's authorial habits of empathy, his curiosity about the lives of others, his efforts in a land of cliche to add twists to easy assumptions, that you are likely to find yourself caring about how things turn out for each of the Hildebrandts equally' Observer It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it.Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh-graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.

Es ist der 23. Dezember 1971, und fur Chicago sind Turbulenzen vorhergesagt. Russ Hildebrandt, evangelischer Pastor in einer liberalen Vorstadtgemeinde, steht im Begriff, sich aus seiner Ehe zu losen - sofern seine Frau Marion, die ihr eigenes geheimes Leben lebt, ihm nicht zuvorkommt. Ihr altester Sohn Clem kehrt von der Uni mit einer Nachricht nach Hause zuruck, die seinen Vater moralisch schwer erschuttern wird. Clems Schwester Becky, lange Zeit umschwarmter Mittelpunkt ihres Highschool-Jahrgangs, ist in die Musikkultur der Ara ausgeschert, wahrend ihr hochbegabter jungerer Bruder Perry, der Drogen an Siebtklassler verkauft, den festen Vorsatz hat, ein besserer Mensch zu werden. Jeder der an einem Scheideweg stehenden Hildebrandts sucht eine Freiheit, die jeder der anderen zu durchkreuzen droht.