Freedom

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A masterpiece’ New York Times ‘Stupendous, magnificent, unforgettable, witty and rich. A great American novel’ Spectator

‘Extraordinary … it is first troubling, then addictive – and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction’ Guardian

‘ Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday

' Moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful . I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer

'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own ' David Hare, Guardian

'By the end of Freedom you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you ' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year

'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets ' Sarah Sands, New Statesman

Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and graduated from Swarthmore College. He has lived in Boston, Spain, New York, Colorado Springs and Philadelphia. His other novels are ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’, ‘Strong Motion’, and ‘The Corrections’. He is also the author of ‘How To Be Alone’, a collection of non-fiction, and ‘The Discomfort Zone’, a memoir. His fiction and non-fiction appear frequently in the ‘New Yorker’ and ‘Harper’s’, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by ‘Granta’ and the ‘New Yorker’. He lives in New York City.