by Jonathan Franzen · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498383973
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«Libertad» is the novel by Jonathan Franzen, published by Salamandra in paperback (672 pages, in Spanish).
The novel portrays several decades in the lives of Patty and Walter Berglund, a progressive couple from the Midwest. The couple's son moves out, Walter accepts a job at a mining company, and rocker Richard Katz reappears; the marriage becomes destabilised. Humour and tragedy serve to explore the desires, commitments and contradictions of freedom.
The translation is by Isabel Ferrer. The work was originally published in English as Freedom in 2010 and belongs to the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For adult readers of contemporary American fiction and portraits of family life.
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
