Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity...

Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri....

Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason....

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....

St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu....

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother....

Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's...

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul....

De este meticuloso retrato de los Lambert emergen de forma brillante y profundamente humana las angustias y contradicciones de toda una sociedad, la norteamericana, y de una época, la última década del siglo XX....

In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis declared the novel 'one of the three great books of my generation'. This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the...

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination...

Russ Hildebrandt, pastor en una iglesia progresista de un barrio residencial, está a punto de liberarse de un matrimonio que considera desdichado, salvo que su esposa, Marion....

A partir de las vidas entrecruzadas de un puñado de personajes retratados con un grado de realismo que hipnotiza al lector, el relato gira en torno a una joven de nombre dickensiano, Purity «Pip» Tyler, que tras su paso por la universidad se afana en encarrilar su vida acorde....

El retrato minucioso de una familia del Medio Oeste americano a lo largo de varias décadas adquiere en la prosa maestra de Jonathan Franzen un carácter universal y se convierte en una incisiva radiografía de nuestro tiempo....

Nach fast fünfzig Ehejahren hat Enid Lambert nur ein Ziel: ihre Familie zu einem letzten Weihnachtsfest um sich zu scharen. Alles könnte so schön sein...

Anatomie d'un mariage et d'une famille - les Berglund -, ce livre analyse les illusions, les déceptions et les compromis d'une génération de baby-boomers...

Patty und Walter Berglund - Vorzeigeeltern und ideale Nachbarn in ihrer selbstrenovierten viktorianischen Villa in St. Paul - geben plötzlich Rätsel auf...

Esta variada serie de artículos, publicados en los más prestigiosos medios norteamericanos, reúne dieciséis piezas que muestran la amplitud de miras de Franzen, en algún caso con claros tintes autobiográficos.

Der größte Roman, den Jonathan Franzen seit den Korrekturen geschrieben hat. Sein Meisterwerk! Es ist der 23. Dezember 1971, und die Familie...