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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulthe 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 Walters dreams. Together with Walterenvironmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manshe 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 Katzoutre rocker and Walters college best friend and rivalstill 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 streets 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 Freedoms 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

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of ''The Corrections''. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. ''The Discomfort Zone'' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a ''small and fundamentally ridiculous person'' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It''s also a portrait of a middle class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America has taken an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. The stories told here draw on elements as varied as the effects of Kafka''s fiction on Franzen''s protracted quest to lose his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school, his self-inflicted travails in selling his mother''s house after her death, and the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life lessons to be learned in watching birds.These chapters of a Midwestern youth and a New York adulthood are warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen''s fiction, but here the main character is the author himself. Sparkling, daring, arrestingly honest, Franzen narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American family.

Jonathan Franzens autobiografische Geschichte seiner Jugend im Mittleren Westen und seines Erwachsenwerdens in New York. Ein glänzend erzähltes und zwingend glaubwürdiges Spiegelbild der USA seit den Siebzigern und ein liebevoll-komisches Porträt einer typischen US-Mittelschichtfamilie.Brilliant award-winning personal history from the author of "The Corrections".

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.

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.

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.

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes - both human and literary - that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we've come to expect from Franzen. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. The End of the End of the Earth is remarkable, provocative and necessary.

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...

Nous sommes en 1971, à la veille de Noël, la météo annonce une importante perturbation. Russ Hildebrandt vit avec sa femme, Marion, et leurs enfants dans une banlieue cossue de Chicago. Pour ce paste

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.

Jonathan Franzenas gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.Itas 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 joylessaunless 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. Clemas sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, whoas 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.Jonathan Franzenas novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonate