Autor Jonathan Franzen
The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections 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…
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 prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of…
Offers illuminating, invaluable glimpses into lives that might otherwise remain outside the reader s ken "Publishers Weekly" The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and…
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn 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…
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.
Je 23. december 1971 a predpoveď počasia v Chicagu hlási snehové zrážky. Russ Hildebrandt, pastor prvej reformovanej cirkvi, stojí na pokraji konca manželstva, ktoré sa preňho stalo bremenom, až kým mu manželka Marion nezasadí dobre mierený úder vlastnými…
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years It's December 23, 1971,…
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…
Berglundovi jsou liberální středostavovská rodina z amerického Středozápadu. Patty je bývalá univerzitní basketbalová hvězda a profesionální matka v domácnosti, Walter přívětivý právník se zaníceným zájmem o ochranu životního prostředí. Společně vychovávají…
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.…
Pip Tylerová neví, kdo vlastně je. Žije ve squatu a splácí studentskou půjčku. Její matka jí odmítá prozradit totožnost otce i to, kdy se narodila, protože život jí samotné, stejně jako životy dalších postav, je zahalen tajemstvím. Postupně se mladistvý…
The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections 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…
Now a 15 Minute Drama on Radio 4. From the author of 'Freedom', a panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century, seen through the turbulent lives of the Lambert family. The Corrections is now seen by many as one of the greatest American…