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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
Featuring: Pip Tyler
576 pages
ISBN: 0374239215
EAN: 9780374239213
Kindle: B00UWF75RE
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the
author of Freedom 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. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme
fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections
and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original
characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and
bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their
intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the
omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the
sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book
yet by one of the major writers of our time.
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