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Freedom Author: [US] Jonathan Franzen Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Original title: Freedom
Freedom Author: [US] Jonathan Franzen Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Original title: Freedom
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Introduction · · · · · ·
For many years, we thought we would never read a work like this again.
——The kind of truly wonderful and great novel that is on the verge of extinction
★ The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Times, and The Guardian unanimously named it the "Book of the Century"
★The only writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine in the past decade, crowned the "Great American Novelist"
★ Truly great contemporary literature. Just as people use Dickens to understand 19th century Britain, future generations can also use "Liberty" to understand the early 21st century America.
★Before the publication of "Freedom", President Obama was eager to read it first and exclaimed "It's amazing!"
★Oprah, Queen of American Media: "An amazing masterpiece!"
★Top media "Book of the Year"
No. 1 in The New York Times' "10 Best Books of the Year"
No. 1 in Time Magazine's "Novel of the Year"
Stephen King's Top Ten Books of the Year
Oprah's Book Club Selections
The Atlantic Monthly "Book of the Year"
The Economist Book Selection
The Guardian's "Top Ten Books of the Year"
The Telegraph Novel of the Year
The Times Book Selection
"Freedom" tells the story of the dreams and failures of an American middle-class family in the first decade of the 21st century. Franzen uses a mixture of tragedy and comedy to dramatically portray the temptation and burden of having too much freedom. Whether it is a housewife full of emotional entanglements, a husband who insists on being a good person, a rock singer with a wandering spirit, or a rebellious and confused adolescent child, each vivid and realistic character comes to life on the page.
Franzen focuses on specific details of life and uses thoughtful and powerful words to "record" how various characters struggle to learn to survive and find meaning in a superficial entertainment world, and how they experience the overwhelming desires and boundless sufferings of mankind, depicting a magnificent portrait of the times.
It turns out that freedom brings us everything except happiness...
About the Author · · · · · ·
Jonathan Franzen is a famous American novelist and essayist. He is known for criticizing modern media and writing about ordinary people. His works have a strong sense of the times.
Born in Illinois in 1959, he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German in 1981. In 1996, he published a long essay, "Occasionally Dreaming," in Harper's magazine, expressing his concerns about the current state of literature, which has attracted widespread attention since then. So far, he has published novels such as "The 27th City" (1988), "Earthquake" (1992), and "Corrections" (2001), an essay collection "How to Be Alone" (2002), and a memoir "The Uncomfortable Zone: A Personal History" (2006). He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for "Corrections."
In 2010, his fourth novel, Freedom, triggered a buying frenzy as soon as it was published, quickly topped major bestseller lists, and was hailed by critics as the "novel of the century."
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