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Purity

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Franzen


Publisher
Gyldendal, Jonathan Franzen, Mich Vraa, [Sælges på internettet]
Year
2015
Tongue
Danish
Weight
391 KB
Edition
Edition 1
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


I PURITY, fortæller den prisvindende amerikanske forfatter Jonathan Franzen historien om den unge kvinde, Purity Tyler, der leder efter sin far, som hun aldrig har mødt. Rejsen bringer hende i kontakt med en karismatisk hacker og whistleblower, og samtidig skal det vise sig, at hendes eget familiemysterie sender tråde fra nutidens USA til Sydamerika og Østtyskland før Berlinmurens fald.

Franzen behandler store temaer som seksualpolitik, kærlighed og forældreroller. Som i KORREKTIONER og FRIHED skaber han troværdige karakterer, hvis liv vi som læsere bliver fuldkommen opslugt af, men stilistisk set udgør denne roman dog et nybrud for Franzen. Den overbevisende nutidsrealisme bliver som altid fuldt udfoldet, men samtidig bliver den her suppleret med en fabulerende og drømmeagtig kvalitet med næsten mytologiske undertoner.

PURITY er en episk slægtsroman om familie-, stats- og forretningshemmeligheder, der forbinder og påvirker mennesker på uforudsete måder. Bogen udkommer på engelsk i september 2015 – samme måned som den udkommer på dansk.


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