Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780007269761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 597 str.

Jonathan Franzen

Opis

Patty and Walter Berglund were hands-on parents at the avant-garde of the whole foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with a Republican family? Why is Walter working with Big Coal? And why has Patty become 'a very different kind of neighbour?'

Recenzje

'Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be' Independent on Sunday

'Head and shoulders above any other book this year: moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer, Books of the Year

'A cat's cradle of family life, and if the measure of a good book is its afterburn, 'Freedom' is a great book' Kirsty Wark Observer, Books of the Year

'I loved 'Freedom'. His acute observations of emotional faultlines, his dialogue and above all his wry humour are delightful' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year

'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian, Books of the Year

'No question about it: 'Freedom' swept everything before it in intricately observed, humane, unprejudiced armfuls. There was no novel to touch it in 2010' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

'By the end of 'Freedom' you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year

'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year

O autorze

Jonathan Franzen, 1959 geboren, erhielt für seinen Weltbestseller "Die Korrekturen" 2001 den National Book Award. Er veröffentlichte weitere Romane. Seit 2010 ist er Mitglied der Berliner Akademie der Künste, 2013 wurde ihm für sein Gesamtwerk der WELT-Literaturpreis verliehen. Jonathan Franzen lebt in New York und Santa Cruz, Kalifornien.