Jonathan Franzen

"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...

This novel follows several members of an American family, the Berglunds, as well as their close friends and lovers, as complex and troubled relationships unfold over many years. The book follows them through the last decades of the twentieth century and concludes near the beginning of the Obama administration. The Berglunds are the middle class suburban family that the neighbors just love to talk about. Walter, the successful and doting husband, and...

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...

In "Farther Away," which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.

A jovem Pip Tyler n?o sabe quem e. Sabe que o seu nome verdadeiro e Purity, que tem as costas um emprestimo de cento e trinta mil dolares contraido para poder tirar um curso, que vive numa casa ocupada com anarquistas de Oakland, e que a sua relac?o com a m?e - a unica familia que tem - e tempestuosa. Mas n?o faz a minima ideia de quem e o pai, da raz?o que levou a m?e a viver isolada do mundo com um nome inventado, nem de como alguma vez ira ter...

First published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's debut novel takes us to St. Louis, Missouri--it is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. Set in the mid-1980s, the story shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American...

A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic-a personal and intellectual awakening A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire....

Der größte Roman, den Jonathan Franzen seit den »Korrekturen« geschrieben hat. Sein Meisterwerk!
Es ist der 23. Dezember 1971, und für Chicago sind Turbulenzen vorhergesagt. Russ Hildebrandt, evangelischer Pastor in einer liberalen Vorstadtgemeinde, steht im Begriff, sich aus seiner Ehe zu lösen – sofern seine Frau Marion, die ihr eigenes geheimes Leben lebt, ihm nicht zuvorkommt. Ihr ältester Sohn Clem kehrt von der Uni mit...