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Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. 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 life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.

A New York Times bestselling 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 book yet by one of the major writers of our time.

Musings on postmodern America by the National Book Award–winning author: “Why be alone? For the pleasure of reading books such as this.” —Entertainment Weekly How to Be Alone is a powerful collection of nonfiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of novels including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads. While the essays range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Jonathan Franzen’s writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. “[Franzen] focuses on the growing commercialism and alienation . . . Presenting a number of variations on that theme, he addresses such personal topics as his smoking habit, an interview for the Oprah show, and his father’s battle with Alzheimer’s, a poignant account of the disease’s impact on his family. In addition, pieces on the shortcomings of the Chicago post office, the supermax prison in Colorado, and the isolating effects of an increasingly computerized society show Franzen’s skill as a journalist and social critic. Also included is ‘Why Bother?,’ a revision of his 1996 critique of the American novel . . . penetrating yet entertaining social commentary.” —Library Journal “Intelligent, thoughtful and provocative pieces.” —Publishers Weekly “Although Franzen calls them ‘essays’ many of these pieces are reportage. He’s good at it . . . He goes out on many a limb (as essayists should) and gives us a good many things to think about, such as the blurring line between private and public behavior in the age of the 24-hour news cycle.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “An intellectually engaging self-awareness as formidable as Joan Didion’s.” —New York Times “Do good books matter anymore? This one does.” —Time

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.

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.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen''s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he''s writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka''s fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between bird watching, his all-consuming marriage, and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise, funny, and gorgeously written self-portrait by one of America''s finest writers.

St. Louis is embroiled in a political conspiracy after Jammu, a young woman from India, is installed as its new police chief. To succeed she realizes that respected businessman Martin Probst must be seduced or destroyed.

The new novel from the author of The Corrections.

Strikingly original in form, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought, passion and literature. A hundred years ago, the writings of Viennese satirist Karl Kraus were among the most penetrating and prophetic in Europe--a relentless criticism of the popular media’s manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though Kraus’s followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Thankfully, Jonathan Franzen is. In The Kraus Project, Franzen not only presents his definitive new translations of Kraus but annotates them spectacularly, with supplementary notes from the Kraus scholar Paul Reitter and the Austrian/German writer Daniel Kehlmann. Kraus was a notoriously cantankerous and difficult author, and in Franzen he has found his match: a novelist unafraid to strongly voice unpopular opinions, and a critic capable of untangling Kraus’s often dense arguments to reveal their relevance to contemporary America.

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen’s great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one’s prejudices, he writes, literature “invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you.” Whatever his subject, Franzen’s essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He’s frank about birds, too (they kill “everything imaginable”), but his reporting and reflections on them—on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica—are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love. Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.

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 neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become “a very different kind of neighbor,” an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically 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. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom’s characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

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.

Download the first chapter of Jonathan Franzen''s next novel, Crossroads. 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 life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own. A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.

Provocadora, ingeniosa y emocionante, esta colección de ensayos es una excelente ocasión para profundizar en el ideario de un escritor sin duda colosal. Esta variada serie de artículos, publicados en los más prestigiosos medios norteamericanos, reúne dieciséis piezas que muestran la amplitud de miras de Franzen, en algún caso con claros tintes autobiográficos. Desde vibrantes reseñas sobre novelistas clásicas como Edith Wharton y contemporáneos como William T. Vollmann -con una evocación muy especial de su amigo David Foster Wallace-, hasta ácidos análisis de la política de Donald Trump y punzantes crónicas de viajes por los cinco continentes, sobre todo por la cada vez menos gélida Antártida, ejemplo flagrante de la deriva autodestructiva de nuestra especie. Y todo ello con la presencia constante de las aves más bellas, más curiosas y más raras del planeta, que no son sólo un aderezo de color en el paisaje, sino el reflejo de una honda pasión irrenunciable. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections―now with a new epilogue The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen’s great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one’s prejudices, he writes, literature “invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you.” Whatever his subject, Franzen’s essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He’s frank about birds, too (they kill “everything imaginable”), but his reporting and reflections on them―on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica―are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love. Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.

《纠正》 After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband 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. 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 伊妮德·兰伯特，当了五十年的妻子和母亲之后，准备让自己享受一下快乐。不幸的是，她的丈夫，艾尔弗雷德罹患帕金森症，逐渐精神失常。他们的孩子也早已飞出了家庭的小巢，奔向各自生活的悲剧。 大儿子加里，银行的投资经理、居家男人，正努力说服自己和家人他没有临床抑郁症——尽管各方面证据相反；二儿子奇普，因性丑闻失去了高校的稳定工作，处于半失业状态，指望着靠手头的剧本赚钱；三女儿丹妮丝年轻美貌，逃离了惨淡的婚姻，成了纽约高级餐厅的主厨，却与一位已婚男性有染——至少她母亲如此怀疑。 尽管情势看起来无比绝望，伊妮德却意志坚定，她要纠正一切的错误，享受全家人的最后一次圣诞欢聚。

''A kind of miracle ... Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes'' Jonathan Franzen ''One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin'' New York Times 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 The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side. "Look, a real Zonie. Can we take your picture?" Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street, Michael is batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border. What chance does Michael have, and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her? Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly silly, Brussig''s novel follows the bizarre, grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows, the ideas at its heart - freedom, democracy and life''s fundamental hilarity - hold great relevance for today. ''Gentle comedy ... Funny, rueful'' Telegraph

Un polémico texto que el autor publicó en la revista Harpers en 1996 sobre el destino de la novela, hoy reelaborado, es uno de los soportes de esta obra que consta de una colección de 14 reportajes, artículos y ensayos breves, que están unidos por un hilo conductor: la búsqueda de la soledad. Los textos plantean desde muy diversos puntos de vista la cuestión de cómo estar solo en la cultura contemporánea. Al autor no parece gustarle nuestra cultura de masas y desea encontrar espacios propios para preservar su individualidad. Incluye textos tan emocionantes como el de la lucha de su padre contra el Alzheimer, que lo hizo acreedor al prestigioso National Magazine Award, la reacción de un pequeño grupo troskista ante la toma de posesión del presidente George Bush o una divertida crónica de sus problemas con la presentadora y estrella televisiva Oprah Winfrey.

I den här romanen tecknar Jonathan Franzen ett skarpt och ömsint porträtt av medelklassfamiljen Berglund där makarna Patty och Walter som medvetna medborgare och närvarande föräldrar kämpar för en bättre värld. De sopsorterar, engagerar sig i sin miljö och cyklar till jobbet i stället för att ta bilen. De är politiskt intresserade och trogna liberaler. Men åren går, barnen växer upp och flyttar hemifrån. Skuggor från Pattys och Walters första tid tillsammans hinner ifatt dem och det är inte längre lika lätt att hålla ihop familjen och äktenskapet. Deras liv tillsammans är inte längre lika självklart. Med det amerikanska samhället som fond speglas här hur vi lever våra liv. Hur kan vi hålla fast vid våra ideal när allt runtomkring oss förändras? Hur hanterar vi förväntningar och besvikelser och den frihet vi kämpat oss till och tar så för given, men som samtidigt kräver så mycket av oss? Frihet betraktas som en av de mest storslagna skildringarna av dagens Amerika. Boken väckte stor uppmärksamhet och höjdes till skyarna när den utkom i original hösten 2010.

UNA HISTORIA EXCEPCIONAL SOBRE LA VIDA DE UNA FAMILIA AMERICANA DE LOS AÑOS SETENTA «Encrucijadas es una novela excelente, la mejor de Franzen.» EL País «Cada novela de Jonathan Franzen es un acontecimiento literario.» El Periódico «Una saga familiar con el aroma de la gran literatura.» EL Cultural En vísperas de las Navidades del año 1971, en Chicago se anuncia una gran nevada. Russ Hildebrandt, pastor en una iglesia progresista de un barrio residencial, está a punto de liberarse de un matrimonio que considera desdichado, salvo que su esposa, Marion, que también tiene sus secretos, se le anticipe. Clem, el primogénito, viene de la universidad infundido de un moralismo extremo que lo ha hecho tomar una decisión que causará estragos. Su hermana Becky, hasta entonces la reina de su clase en el instituto, ha virado bruscamente hacia la contracultura. El tercer hijo, el brillante Perry, que se ha dedicado a vender droga a sus compañeros de curso, se ha propuesto volverse mejor persona. Mientras que el más pequeño, Jay, intenta abrirse camino entre la incertidumbre y el asombro. Así, todos los Hildebrandt persiguen una libertad que los demás miembros de la familia, cada uno por su cuenta, amenazan con coartar. La crítica ha dicho... «Esta novela, como todas las buenas novelas de Franzen, habla de la familia. Me ha parecido la mejor del autor y, aunque la leí a finales de verano, sigo pensando en cada uno de los miembros de la familia Hildebrandt como si fueran de la propia, me pregunto qué harán, dónde estarán y espero el siguiente libro porque Franzen la ha concebido como la primera de una trilogía. [...] Esta novela es la más compleja de todas, la más profunda, con unos personajes muy bien definidos y creíbles y con un personaje femenino protagonista, Marion, la madre de familia, que está más allá de sus anteriores protagonistas femeninas.» CTXT «Una obra muy absorbente, divertida, lacerante y, por momentos, sorprendentemente edificante. En una palabra: exquisita.» Kirkus Reviews «Franzen regresa con una visión panorámica y magistral del vigoroso mundo cultural de los años setenta en Estados Unidos. [...] Un libro irresistible.» Publishers Weekly «Probablemente, Jonathan Franzen sea el mejor novelista estadounidense del momento.» The New Republic «Franzen [...] probablemente haya logrado escribir su obra maestra definitiva. Y tendrá continuidad.» Woman

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 «Unafiesta narrativa [...] Libertad es una bella y compleja exploración de un puñado de vidas íntimas.» Juan Gabriel Vásquez, El País Semanal

„Mestermű” – New York Times Book Review „A nagybetűs Amerikai Regény” – Esquire #1 Bestseller John Gardner prózadíj (2011) Nemzeti könyvkritikusok díja – jelölés (2010) Los Angeles Times könyvdíj – jelölés (2010) Oprah könyvklub Eposzi léptékű mű a modern világról, szerelemről és házasságról. A Szabadság lapjain tragédia és komédia keveredik – Franzen könnyeden és bölcsen mutatja meg, milyen kísértésekkel és milyen terhekkel jár a szabadság. Walter és Patty Berglund egy tanulási folyamat megszemélyesítői: Hogyan éljünk az egyre bonyolultabb világban, miközben hibákat követünk el és igyekszünk minden lehetséges örömöt besöpörni? Franzen panorámaképe örökre velünk marad. Jonathan Franzen az egyik legnagyobb élő amerikai regényíró. 1959-ben született az illinois-i Western Springsben. Öt regénye jelent meg, melyekkel számtalan díjat nyert el. Jelenleg Kaliforniában él.

Jonathan Franzen, uma das revelações da literatura americana, conta uma saga contemporânea tragicômica, que vai de Nova York à Lituânia, e expõe dramas pessoais, crises conjugais e os conflitos que separam duas gerações de uma típica família dos Estados Unidos nos anos 1990. Sucesso de público e crítica, o romance recebeu o National Book Award 2001. Eleito um dos melhores livros do século XXI pelo The New York Times. As correções narra a história dos conflitos religiosos, geracionais e de costumes de uma típica família americana na última década do século XX. Nos Estados Unidos dos anos 1990, nada escapa ao olhar agudo do autor: a instabilidade do mercado financeiro, as promessas de bem-estar dos novos antidepressivos, a moral religiosa da velha geração e a ausência de escrúpulos dos jovens americanos. A família Lambert encarna a crise de valores da sociedade contemporânea. Alfred é um engenheiro ferroviário aposentado, teimoso e cheio de manias agravadas pelo mal de Parkinson recentemente diagnosticado. Enid é uma dona-de-casa comum. O casal, na faixa dos setenta anos, vive às turras numa pequena cidade do Meio-Oeste americano. Os três filhos foram para metrópoles da costa Leste a fim de se livrar da mediocridade da vida em família. Na Filadélfia, Gary, o mais velho, tornou-se banqueiro. Deprimido e paranóico, porém, acaba com o próprio casamento. A caçula, Denise, também mora na Filadélfia, onde é chef de cozinha, mas sua vida sexual tumultuada a faz perder o emprego. Em Nova York, Chip, o filho do meio, é um roteirista frustrado. Ao se envolver com uma aluna, arruína a carreira de professor universitário e vai parar na distante Lituânia, país imerso nas recentes transformações capitalistas do Leste europeu. Para contar essa história em que todos procuram incessantemente corrigir os rumos que imprimiram às próprias vidas, o autor usa uma prosa ácida, que expressa o embate entre mundos inconciliáveis: o universo conservador dos pais e o pragmatismo sem horizonte dos filhos. "Maravilhoso... Tudo o que se espera de um grande romance, exceto por um motivo: ele acaba." - T he New York Times Book Review "À altura de Os Buddenbrooks, de Thomas Mann, e Ruído branco, de Don DeLillo... Uma realização notável" - Michael Cunningham

Una grandiosa novela tragicómica, una obra maestra sobre una familia que se derrumba en una época en que todo tiene arreglo, todo puede corregirse. Este monumental reto estilístico, divertido, corrosivo y profundamente humano, confirma a Jonathan Franzen como uno de los más brillantes intérpretes de la sociedad contemporánea.

A catalog has been published on the occasion of the exhibition of Anne Neely''s recent paintings with an essay by Jonathan Franzen. The exhibition is at Lohin Geduld Galley, New York, New York, from September 7 to October 8, 2011.

Neste romance cuja ação se desenrola praticamente em um único dia, Jonathan Franzen constrói a história de uma família do Meio-Oeste em um momento de crise moral e religiosa. É 23 de dezembro de 1971 e a previsão é de um inverno rigoroso em Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, pastor associado de uma igreja protestante suburbana, está prestes a se libertar de um casamento infeliz — a menos que sua esposa, Marion, decida ser mais rápida que ele. O filho mais velho do casal, Clem, decidiu largar os estudos e se alistar para lutar na Guerra do Vietnã. A irmã de Clem, Becky, uma das garotas populares da escola, está flertando com a contracultura, enquanto o caçula, Perry, vende drogas para alunos da sétima série, mas decidiu que quer ser uma pessoa melhor. Cada um desses personagens busca uma liberdade que os outros põem em xeque. Os romances de Jonathan Franzen são aclamados pela construção de personagens e por seu olhar atento às questões americanas. Em Encruzilhadas, o autor de Pureza e As correções joga luz sobre duas gerações imersas em um mundo marcado por mudanças e contradições — e que dialoga diretamente com o presente. “Com seu estilo extraordinário e atenção incansável às maquinações de uma família, Encruzilhadas tem a marca de Franzen, mas com uma nítida evolução. Uma análise eletrizante das complexidades de uma vida ética.” — The Washington Post