Автор: Джонатан Франзен

Роман «Поправки», вышедший в 2001 году, принес сорокадвухлетнему Джонатану Франзену всемирную известность и поставил его в один ряд с классиками американской литературы. Книга разошлась миллионными тиражами, получила Национальную книжную премию...

Герои «Свободы» Патти и Уолтер демократичны, образованны, заботятся об окружающей среде и лишены предрассудков; у них идеальная семья. Но благие намерения не спасают их от потрясений, которыми чреваты отношения свободных людей в семье и в...

Двадцатитрехлетняя Пип ненавидит свое полное имя, не знает, кто ее отец, не может расплатиться с учебным долгом, не умеет строить отношения с мужчинами. Она выросла с эксцентричной матерью, которая боготворит единственную дочь и наотрез...

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. The editor of The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus, proclaimed it “a masterpiece of...

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 controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel....

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries 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...

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. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in...

From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred,...

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings – earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Ren?e Seitchek, a passionate and...

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The CorrectionsYoung 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...

Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. ‘The Discomfort Zone’ is his intimate memoir of his growth from a ‘small and fundamentally ridiculous person’ through an adolescence both excruciating and...

The fantastic fourth classic instalment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.The Martin Beck series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction...

Декабрь 1971 года, в Чикаго и окрестностях ожидается метель. Расс Хильдебрандт, священник одной из пригородных церквей, почти готов положить конец своему безрадостному браку, но тут выясняется, что и его жене, Мэрион, у которой есть собственные...