Franzen, J: Freedom A Novel. Nominiert: AudioFile Best Audiobooks 2010, Nominiert: Booklist Editors' Choice 2010, Nominiert: Audie Award Finalist 2011, Ausgezeichnet: AudioFile Earphones Award 2010

"A masterpiece of American fiction." -The New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Franzen has written his most deeply felt novel yet--a novel that turns out to be both a compelling biography of a dysfunctional family and an indelible portrait of our times." -The New York Times

"A work of total genius." -New York Magazine

"The Great American Novel." -Esquire

"One of the best living American novelists." -Time

"Epic." -Vanity Fair

"Hugely ambitious . . . Freedom is very, very good." -USA Today

"Brilliant . . . Epic . . . An extraordinary stylist." -The Washington Post

"A surprisingly moving and even hopeful epic." -NPR

"Sweeping and powerful." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Consuming and extraordinarily moving." -Los Angeles Times

"Immense and unforgettable." -Chicago Tribune

"Devastatingly insightful." -The Miami Herald

"A page turner that engages the mind." -Newsday

"It's refreshing to see a novelist who wants to engage the questions of our time in the tradition of 20th-century greats like John Steinbeck and Sinclair Lewis . . . [This] is a book you'll still be thinking about long after you've finished reading it." -Associated Press

"Deeply moving and superbly crafted . . . It's such a full novel, rich in description, broad in its reach and full of wry observations." -Pittsburg Post-Gazette

"His writing is so gorgeous . . . Franzen is one of those exceptional writers whose works define an era and a generation, and his books demand to be read." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A tour de force . . . one of the finest novelists of his generation." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A highly readable triumph of conventional realism . . . Addictive." -The National

"The first Great American Novel of the post-Obama era." -Telegraph (UK)

"A literary genius . . . This is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction . . . Freedom is the novel of the year, and the century." -The Guardian (UK)

"A triumph . . . A pleasure to read." -The New York Observer

"Exhilarating . . . Gripping . . . Moving . . . On a level with The Great Gatsby [and] Gone With the Wind." -Bloomberg