Purity

Jonathan Franzen (born in 1959) is a famous American writer who was awarded the National Book Award in 2001.
The novel "Purity" was published in 2015 and immediately gained popularity among readers. Since its title is based on the name of the main character, which translates as "purity", one of the main questions of the novel is what is hidden behind the facade of beauty, purity and light. A girl who does not know how to communicate with the environment, who is unsuccessfully looking for her father and suffers because she has become the only meaning of life for her mother... An Eastern European boy who has turned into an outcast in an "ideal" society... A journalist who is painfully chained to a person whom she cannot leave, even though she loves another man... The obsessed daughter of a billionaire who dreams of becoming an avant-garde artist, but is completely unadapted to real life... Who are these people to each other? However, they are connected by invisible threads, which in the finale of the novel sew the fragments of plots into a single whole...