Jonathan Franzen

It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

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Freedom, by New York Times-bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads, is a masterly novel of contemporary love and marriage, a brilliant charting of the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire.

Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter, once an environmental lawyer, taken a job working with Big Coal? Most startling of all, why has Patty, the perfect neighbor, turned into the local Fury?

Patty and Walter Berglund are indelible characters, and their mistakes and joys, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, have become touchstones of contemporary American reality.

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"So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent" (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from "the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation" (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen, the author of Crossroads

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's 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 she'll ever have a normal life.

A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and she is equally conflicted about her attraction to him.

The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters, and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes.

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. 'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world's inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.' The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen's writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world's failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?

Η Πάτι και ο Γούλτερ Μπέργκλαντ ήταν υποδειγματικό ζευγάρι. Εκείνος, δικηγόρος με περιβαλλοντικές ανησυχίες, πήγαινε στη δουλειά του με το ποδήλατο και ήταν αφοσιωμένος στην οικογένειά του. Εκείνη, τέλεια σύζυγος και μητέρα, ανακύκλωνε τις μπαταρίες, νοιαζόταν για την υγιεινή διατροφή και για τη γειτονιά τους. Οι Μπέργκλαντ ήταν από αυτούς που κάνουν τον κόσμο λίγο καλύτερο.
Τι τους συνέβη ξαφνικά; Γιατί ο γιος τους πήγε να μείνει στους διπλανούς τους, που είναι φανατικοί Ρεπουμπλικάνοι; Γιατί ο Γουόλτερ άρχισε να δουλεύει για τις μεγάλες εταιρείες εξόρυξης άνθρακα και η Πάτι να συμπεριφέρεται σαν έξαλλη μαινάδα μπροστά στους έκπληκτους γείτονές της;
Ο Τζόναθαν Φράνζεν των θρυλικών ΔΙΟΡΘΩΣΕΩΝ υπογράφει μια κωμικοτραγική ιστορία για τους πειρασμούς της ελευθερίας, την εύθραυστη ασφάλεια των προαστίων, το εφηβικό πάθος, τους συμβιβασμούς της μέσης ηλικίας, το βάρος τού να αποκτάς εξουσία. Και καθώς παρακολουθεί τις αγωνιώδεις προσπάθειες των ηρώων του να προσαρμοστούν σ’ έναν κόσμο που τους μπερδεύει όλο και περισσότερο, συνθέτει μια εύστοχη, ειρωνική και συγκινητική τοιχογραφία της ίδιας της εποχής μας.