Jonathan Franzen - Tisztaság I-II. Volume

"Funny, wise, and exceptionally intelligent." (Chicago Tribune)

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Pip Tyler is young and doesn't quite know who he is yet. All he knows is that his first name is actually Purity, that he has to pay back $130,000 in student loans sooner or later, that he lives with anarchists in a foreclosed house in Oakland, and that he has a troubled relationship with his only relative, his mother. However, he has no idea who his father is, why his mother lives in isolation, under an alias, and when he, Pip, will have a normal life.

After a passing encounter with a German activist, Pip signs up as an intern for the Daylight Project and travels to Bolivia. The mastermind behind the project, Andreas Wolf, seems to have access to every secret in the world - perhaps even the secret of who Pip's father is. Andreas and Pip become inexplicably attracted to each other. The Tistzaság main drive before Dickens' novel Beautiful Hopes, showing, among other things, how the world has changed in more than one hundred and fifty years - but also drawing attention to what has not changed.

21. Szazad Kiadó publishes Jonathan Franzen's novels in an author series, which became classics immediately after their publication. The third volume in the series is Franzen's fifth novel, Purity, which was published in the USA in 2015.