Jonathan Franzen
22) Svoboda
Author
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
This novel follows several members of an American family, the Berglunds, as well as their close friends and lovers, as complex and troubled relationships unfold over many years. The book follows them through the last decades of the twentieth century and concludes near the beginning of the Obama administration. The Berglunds are the middle class suburban family that the neighbors just love to talk about. Walter, the successful and doting husband, and...
23) ha-Tiḳunim
Author
Series
Sifriyah la-ʻam volume 517
Publisher
ʻAm ʻOved
Pub. Date
2003
Language
עברית
25) Encrucijadas
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
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 tambien tiene sus secretos, se le anticipe. Clem, el primogenito, viene de la universidad infundido de un moralismo extremo que lo ha hecho tomar una decisión que causará estragos. Su...
27) Pureza
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
Si la literatura es el instrumento ideal para que el ser humano ilumine los recovecos más oscuros de su mundo interior y perciba con mayor nitidez la realidad que lo circunda, Jonathan Franzen es el novelista contemporáneo que más se ha atrevido a explorar las fronteras que condicionan nuestra existencia. Con Pureza, Franzen ha logrado superar el listón marcado con su anterior novela, Libertad, que en su momento supuso un hito admirado y reconocido...
29) Bezgreshnostʹ
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[between 2015 and 2021]
Language
Russian
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip-and the life lessons it can teach us-from a stellar array of writers and artists. Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture--hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall."--
Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have their own quixotic dreams--to secure an original English pressing of Exile on Main...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, "attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire"--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question more than forty renowned authors answer in LIGHT THE DARK. Each author picks a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem--to reveal what gets them started and keeps them going doing the creative work they love. From there, incredible stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled...
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Apatow shares a collection of "writing from all disciplines-- short stories, poetry, essays, humor writing, journalism, memoir, cartoons, sketches, and even television pilots." Most were selected for their humor, but the author admits to selecting a few because they were so personally meaningful to him.
Series
New Yorker decades volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A look back at the 1950s chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction.
