Purity

Purity tells the story of American Purity Tyler, known to those around her as Pip. Her mother has never wanted to tell her who her father is. After a traumatic experience in the Californian squat where she lives, Pip decides to go looking for him. Her search leads her through North America and Latin America, where she comes into contact with a charismatic, world-famous internet rebel, Andreas Wolf. But Pip does not know that Wolf carries a secret with him.

Purity is a grand, awe-inspiring novel about identity, descent, love and sexuality, but above all about secrets: from the intimate secrets within a family to the life-threatening secrets of capitalist multinationals and Western society as a whole.

Jonathan Franzen is one of the most important writers of our time. He made his international breakthrough in 2001 with his masterpiece The Corrections, for which he received the National Book Award