PURITY - Lore

Brossura, 608 pagine

Pubblicato il 02 Agosto 2016 da Picador USA, Picador.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-09710-1

(1 recensione)

"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother -- her only family -- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world -- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas …

"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother -- her only family -- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world -- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong."--Book jacket (hardcover edition).

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Franzen è sempre Franzen non ce n'è. È riuscito a farmi piangere per Andreas, sì, sfido chiunque a non innamorarsi di lui. Io mi sono innamorata follemente di questo "idealista non per scelta" e.... Non voglio spoilerare quindi mi fermo qui. Fino a 3/4 del libro lo reputavo a livello delle Correzioni, uno dei miei libri preferiti di sempre, ma poi, proprio alla fine si è ammosciato parecchio. Purtroppo. Comunque bel romanzo in puro stile Franzen quindi se lo amate: compratelo non ve ne pentirete.