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Con esta historia inmisericorde de una típica familia norteamericana, Jonathan Franzen obtuvo el National Book Award y el Premio James Tait Black Memorial, y fue finalista de los premios Pulitzer y Pen/Faulkner. 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. Alfred Lambert es un ingeniero de ferrocarril jubilado cuya percepción de la realidad empieza a resquebrajarse a causa de la enfermedad de Parkinson. Su esposa Enid, tras cincuenta años de matrimonio, sigue obsesionada con mantener el orden en su enorme casa de un próspero barrio residencial. Los tres hijos se establecieron en la costa Este años atrás, lejos del hogar familiar. El mayor, Gary, es un alto ejecutivo bancario, un modélico padre de familia acosado por el fantasma de la depresión. Chip, el segundo, tras su fracaso en el mundo académico, se ha enfrascado en un nuevo proyecto de dudosa legalidad. Y Denise, la menor, extremadamente competitiva, triunfa como chef de un restaurante de moda, pero sufre los reveses de una vida sentimental inestable. En el país, la realidad económica corrige las expectativas sobrevaloradas del mercado bursátil, mientras los medicamentos más avanzados corrigen los trastornos del ánimo. Pero, en el ámbito de la familia, ¿pueden los hijos corregir los errores de sus padres? Y en un orden de cosas más concreto, ¿logrará Enid reunir a todos sus hijos para pasar una última Navidad juntos? La crítica ha dicho... «A la vez divertida y desoladora, indulgente y despiadada, Las correcciones es testimonio del alcance y la profundidad de los placeres que proporciona la ficción excepcional.» David Foster Wallace «Jonathan Franzen ha construido una imponente novela a partir de la incontenible conciencia de un matrimonio, de una familia, de una cultura entera.» Don DeLillo «Tan sagaz como las novelas de los escritores posmodernos más inteligentes [...] pero infinitamente más accesible [...] Franzen deslumbra al lector con personajes conmovedoramente humanos.» The NYT Magazine «Una novela de elegante factura, perversamente inteligente [...] de las más ambiciosas de los últimos años.» Diego Doncel, El Cultural «Una novela de aliento [...] posee humor, se toma y no se deja, como todo aquello que de verdad merece la pena.» J. M.ª Guelbenzu, Babelia «Una novela que aspira a revitalizar el género, una metáfora de la década de los noventa y una saga de la familia americana contemporánea [...] se perfila como la primera gran novela del siglo.» Javier Martínez de Pisón, El País «Franzen ha ingresado en la cúpula de los grandes escritores norteamericanos con una novela social que no es demagógica, con una novela intimista que no es autocomplaciente, con una novela visionaria que no es arrogante.» Sergi Sánchez, El Periódico «Sucesivamente divertida y corrosiva, solemne y emocionante, Las correcciones no sólo muestra dos generaciones de una familia americana que intentan dar sentido a sus vidas, sino que abre además una ventana a un país inhóspito que avanza tambaleante hacia el nuevo milenio.» The New York Times
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Eugenio Barona (Narrator)
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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. Patty y Walter Berglund son miembros de una nueva y floreciente clase urbana, pioneros en la recuperación de un barrio degradado. Además de madre modélica y esposa perfecta, Patty es la vecina ideal, la que sabe dónde se reciclan las pilas y cómo escoger un colegio adecuado para los niños. Junto con su marido Walter, abogado ecologista y ferviente defensor de la bicicleta, aportan su grano de arena a la construcción de un mundo mejor. Sin embargo, la llegada del nuevo milenio pone la vida de los Berglund patas arriba. Su hijo quinceañero se instala en casa de los vecinos republicanos, Walter acepta trabajar para una compañía minera, y Richard Katz, antiguo compañero de Walter, rockero extravagante y mujeriego empedernido, cobra un protagonismo insospechado en la pareja. Pero aún más desconcertante es la evolución de Patty, que de ser la figura más activa del barrio se ha transformado en una mujer ensimismada en la búsqueda de su propia felicidad. Con una efectiva combinación de humor y tragedia, Franzen desgrana las tentaciones y las obligaciones que conlleva la libertad: los placeres de la pasión adolescente, los compromisos despreciados en la madurez, las consecuencias del anhelo desenfrenado de poder y riqueza que arrasa el país. Así, en los aciertos y errores de un grupo de personas que tratan de adaptarse a un mundo confuso y cambiante, Franzen ha pintado un cautivador retablo de nuestra época. La crítica ha dicho... «Hay sabiduría, inteligencia y felicidad en cada página. Ésta es una novela verdaderamente grande, emocionante, inolvidable.» José María Guelbenzu, Babelia, El País «Una obra maestra, intensa, de lectura apasionante [...]. Una de esas cimas entre nubes que sólo alcanzan los elegidos.» Robert Saladrigas, Culturas, La Vanguardia «Una gran novela, una enorme novela. Un minucioso y brillante estudio de personajes y de relaciones personales.» Andrés Ibáñez, ABC Cultural «Una fiesta narrativa [...] Libertad es una bella y compleja exploración de un puñado de vidas íntimas.» Juan Gabriel Vásquez, El País Semanal
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Irene Serrano Guerrero (Narrator)
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What If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. ‘Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you’re younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth—massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing regions made uninhabitable by extreme heat or permanent drought. If you’re under thirty, you’re all but guaranteed to witness it. If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’ This is Jonathan Franzen’s controversial New Yorker essay, published as a single volume that discusses a planet on the cusp of and what and how individuals can respond to that.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Christopher Ragland (Narrator)
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Wann hören wir auf, uns etwas vorzumachen? - Gestehen wir uns ein, dass wir die Klimakatastrophe nic
Der Nr. 1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller jetzt als Hörbuch: Wir müssen der Wahrheit ins Gesicht sehen, sagt Jonathan Franzen, der sich seit vielen Jahren mit Themen des Umweltschutzes beschäftigt: Das Spiel ist aus, wir werden den Klimawandel nicht mehr kontrollieren, die Katastrophe nicht verhindern können. Das Pariser Abkommen, das ZweiGradZiel, 'Fridays for Future', die Bepreisung von CO2 - alles zu spät, nachdem 30 Jahre lang vergeblich versucht wurde, die globale Erwärmung zu reduzieren. Aber das ist kein Grund zum Aufhören und schon gar nicht das Ende von allem. Wir sollten uns vielmehr neu darauf besinnen, was uns wichtig ist. Deshalb, so Franzen, wird es jetzt Zeit, sich auf die Folgen vorzubereiten, zum Beispiel auf Brände, Überschwemmungen und Flüchtlingsströme. Es geht aber auch darum, alles in unserer Macht Stehende zu tun, um unsere Gesellschaften, unsere Demokratien zu festigen. Dieses Buch ist ein kämpferisches Plädoyer dafür, die Grenzen unserer Möglichkeiten nicht zulasten dessen zu leugnen, was sich erfolgreich verändern lässt...
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Johannes Steck (Narrator)
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Wann hören wir auf, uns etwas vorzumachen? - Gestehen wir uns ein, dass wir die Klimakatastrophe nic
Der Nr. 1 SPIEGEL-Bestseller jetzt als Hörbuch: Wir müssen der Wahrheit ins Gesicht sehen, sagt Jonathan Franzen, der sich seit vielen Jahren mit Themen des Umweltschutzes beschäftigt: Das Spiel ist aus, wir werden den Klimawandel nicht mehr kontrollieren, die Katastrophe nicht verhindern können. Das Pariser Abkommen, das ZweiGradZiel, 'Fridays for Future', die Bepreisung von CO2 - alles zu spät, nachdem 30 Jahre lang vergeblich versucht wurde, die globale Erwärmung zu reduzieren. Aber das ist kein Grund zum Aufhören und schon gar nicht das Ende von allem. Wir sollten uns vielmehr neu darauf besinnen, was uns wichtig ist. Deshalb, so Franzen, wird es jetzt Zeit, sich auf die Folgen vorzubereiten, zum Beispiel auf Brände, Überschwemmungen und Flüchtlingsströme. Es geht aber auch darum, alles in unserer Macht Stehende zu tun, um unsere Gesellschaften, unsere Demokratien zu festigen. Dieses Buch ist ein kämpferisches Plädoyer dafür, die Grenzen unserer Möglichkeiten nicht zulasten dessen zu leugnen, was sich erfolgreich verändern lässt...
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Johannes Steck (Narrator)
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The End of the End of the Earth
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections 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. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we've come to expect from Franzen. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. The End of the End of the Earth is remarkable, provocative and necessary.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Robert Petkoff (Narrator)
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A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom. 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. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating audiobook yet by one of the major writers of our time. Includes a bonus conversation with the author.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Dylan Baker, Jenna Lamia, Robert Petkoff (Narrator)
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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections. Includes an interview with the author.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. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life.Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world - including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong.Jonathan Franzen's Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters - Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers - and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Dylan Baker, Jenna Lamia, Robert Petkoff (Narrator)
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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 controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls "a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance--even a celebration--of being a reader and a writer." At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Brian D'Arcy James, Jonathan Franzen (Narrator)
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The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom.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. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator.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. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing from the reader. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. 'Farther Away' is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Jonathan Franzen, Scott Shepherd (Narrator)
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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, through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew. In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), Jonathan Franzen, Scott Shepherd (Narrator)
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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 to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing specatcularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man--or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Jonathan Franzen (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)
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