Freedomcomically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire.
A sharp and provocative new essay collection exploring, among other things, environmental issues and writing, from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections.
<p> <strong>Thomas Brussig's classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin Wall</strong> </p>
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we cant prevent it. This is Jonathan Franzens controversialNew Yorkeressay, published as a single volume that discusses a planet on the cusp of and what and how individuals can respond to that.
<p>Die Geschichte einer Jugend im amerikanischen Mittelwesten und eines Erwachsenenlebens in New York. Ein vielfarbiges, mitunter komisch-trotziges Selbstporträt eines Menschen in seiner Zeit.</p>
<p>Virtuos und pointiert setzt sich Jonathan Franzen mit dem Geist seiner Zeit auseinander und offenbart in fünfzehn Essays ganz persönliche Erfahrungen. Nach wie vor erhellend und aktuell.</p>
Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent citizens into careening political conspiracy. Franzen's wry, exhuberant first novel is already a classic of contemporary fiction.
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. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.