★多年来，我们以为再也不会读到这样的作品
——那种濒临灭绝的真正好看又伟大的小说
★《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《泰晤士报》《卫报》公推为“世纪之书”
★十年来唯一登上《时代》封面的作家，被加冕为“伟大的美国小说家”
★真正伟大的当代文学，正如人们借由狄更斯来了解十九世纪的英国，后人也可以通过《自由》来了解二十一世纪初期的美国。
★《自由》出版前，奥巴马总统急不可待抢先阅读，赞叹“太惊人了”！
★美国传媒女王奥普拉：“一部惊人的大师级杰作！”
★顶级媒体“年度选书”
《纽约时报》“年度十大好书”第1名
《时代周刊》“年度小说”第1名
史蒂芬·金“年度十大选书”
“奥普拉读书俱乐部”选书
《大西洋月刊》“年度图书”
《经济学人》选书
英国《卫报》“年度十大好书”
英国《电讯报》年度小说
英国《泰晤士报》选书
《 自由 》讲述了一个美国中产阶级家庭在二十一世纪的第一个十年所经历的梦想与失败。弗兰岑以悲喜交织的手法，戏剧性地刻画了拥有太多自由带给人的诱惑与负担。无论是满怀情感纠结的家庭主妇、坚持当好人的丈夫，还是精神飘荡不定的摇滚歌手，以及叛逆、迷茫的青春期孩子，一个个鲜活而又现实的人物跃然纸上。
弗兰岑着眼于具体的生活细节，以充满思考和力量的文字，“记录”各个人物在一个肤浅的娱乐世界如何挣扎着去学习生存、找寻意义，体察人类滔天的欲望和无边的痛苦，描绘出一幅格局磅礴的时代画像。
自由带给我们的，原来是幸福之外的一切……

2001年美国全国图书奖
2001年美国全国书评家协会奖提名
2002年美国普利策奖提名
亚马逊网站2001年度最佳小说
小说以一个美国小镇为中心，叙述了一对美国老年夫妇伊妮德和艾尔弗雷德在城郊的生活及三个孩子各自在准备回家团聚并面对各自生活中的“纠正”时的情景，但它要反映的并不仅仅是美国家庭，更是美国自身，美国的资本主义、物质主义、乐观主义、理想主义。小说从上世纪中叶的美国中西部一直写到今天的华尔街和东欧，时而滑稽，时而刻薄，时而令人辛酸，多侧面地描摹了美国文化，为人们打开了一扇探视美国人心灵的窗口。这部富于想象力的现实主义小说具有多种多样的感染力，其中到处洋溢着的快感，是一个摆脱了大师们束缚的作家的快感，是杰出小说所能带来的愉悦的深度和广度的明证。
丹妮丝，我是在征求你的意愿。加里说他跟卡罗琳没有拿定主意。我需要了解你自个儿是不是真的想在圣裘德度过一个圣诞节。因为只要我们所有的其他人一致认为有必要最后一次在圣裘德团聚——
——《纠正》
乔纳森·弗兰岑从浮想联翩的关于婚姻、家庭、整体文化的意识中构建出一部具有极强感染力的小说……
——唐·德里罗，美国著名作家
《纠正》与托马斯·曼的《布登勃洛克一家》和德里罗的《白噪音》平起平坐。这是一个巨大成就。
——迈克尔·坎宁安，美国著名作家
一部关于现代美国家庭分崩离析的小说，其意蕴可以不断蔓延……弗兰岑为我们创作了关于一个有缺陷的国家在其核心就可改善性的概念上具有同等缺陷的一出悲喜剧。
——《纽约人》

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections , a darkly comedic novel about family

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walterenvironmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manshe was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzoutré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rivalstill doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become a very different kind of neighbor,” an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections , Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom ’s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
An American Library Association Notable Book
Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says.
Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D------ College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a "transgressive" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man--or so Gary hints.
Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.