by Jonathan Franzen · Bond Street Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385681513
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«Purity» is the literary fiction novel by Jonathan Franzen, published by Bond Street Books in hardback (576 pages, in English).
Pip Tyler lives in a commune in Oakland, with university debts and no idea who her father is. A chance encounter leads her to an internship at the Sunlight Project, Andreas Wolf's organisation that exposes government and corporate fraud online. The novel weaves together identity, sexual politics, love and family secrets.
Nominated in 2015 for the Goodreads Choice Award and in 2016 for the Andrew Carnegie Medal, both in the fiction category.
Aimed at readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs interested in lengthy novels with complex characters.
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.
