In ‘Farther Away’, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him.
'The great achievement of Freedom is to be an almost perfectly written novel yet one which contrives not to be intimidating. It is both a page-turner and a work of art.' Sarah Sands, Evening Standard
Patty und Walter Berglund – Vorzeigeeltern und Umweltpioniere – geben ihren Nachbarn plötzlich Rätsel auf: Ihr halbwüchsiger Sohn zieht zur proletenhaften Familie nebenan.
Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she’ll ever have a normal life.
Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of ‘Freedom’ and the highly acclaimed ‘The Corrections’, arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri.
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 vigour to the themes – both human and literary – that have long preoccupied him.
Na 26 jaar bezint Patty Berglund zich op haar huwelijk. Haar man Walter is niet meer de sympathieke idealist voor wie ze jaren geleden als een blok viel. Hij heeft zich ontpopt als een ambitieuze, rusteloze ondernemer.
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
Oskar Schell, 9 ar, är uppfinnare, frankofil, origamist, datakonsult, smyckesdesigner och amatörarkeolog. Dessutom spelar han väldigt gärna tamburin och korresponderar med Stephen Hawking och Ringo Starr.
Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home.By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading.By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled.
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in... For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts.