Annyira könnyen megfogja a figyelmed a szerző, a történet pont annyira bonyolult és szövevényes, épphogy sikerül követni hogy melyik szereplő kicsoda (miközben néhol ők is ezen agyalnak), ki kinek a kije, és kivel mit, meg mit nem. A Purity több szempontból is jó benyomást tett, elsősorban a szórakoztató irodalmi kvalitása volt rám jó hatással. Jonathan Franzen is a major author of our time, and PURITY is his edgiest and most searching book yet.Ī nagy sikerű szerző új könyvéről első Franzen-könyvemként írhatok, mindenféle prekoncepciók nélkül. The author of THE CORRECTIONS and FREEDOM has created yet another cast 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 a dark-hued comedy of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. 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. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organisation that traffics in all the secrets of the world – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins.

But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life. 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.

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. Purity is a dark-hued comedy of… ( tovább)

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