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This is the most important collection of essays by the famous contemporary American writer Jonathan Franzen. It contains 14 sincere essays with rich content and unique insights, highlighting Franzen's elegance, sensitivity, and courage as an essayist. Among them, "Why Worry" was originally published in the American "Harper's" magazine, which shocked the American literary world. The author carefully revised it when it was included in the collection. The true feelings revealed in "Father's Brain" moved everyone. From exiled readers to lonely authors, from imperial bedrooms to world cities, from rag picking to sifting soot, from the prison system to sex books.

The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Times, and The Guardian recommended it as the "Book of the Century." The only writer to appear on the cover of Time Magazine in the past ten years was crowned a "Great American Writer." For years we thought we would never read anything like this again, that endangered category of truly beautiful and great novels. Just as people use Dickens to understand Britain in the 19th century, future generations can also use "Liberty" to understand the United States in the early 21st century. Before "Freedom" was published, President Obama couldn't wait to read it first and praised it as "it's amazing." Oprah, Queen of American Media: "An astonishing masterpiece." "Freedom" tells the story of the dreams and failures of a middle-class American family in a decade in the 21st century. Jonathan Franzen uses a mixture of tragedy and joy to dramatically depict the temptation and burden that having too much freedom brings to people: whether it is an emotionally entangled housewife, a husband who insists on being a good person, a rock singer with an unstable spirit, or a rebellious and confused adolescent child, it turns out that freedom brings us, It is everything except happiness... Franzen focuses on the specific details of life, and uses words full of thinking and power to "record" how various characters struggle to learn to survive and find meaning in a superficial entertainment world, and to experience human beings' monstrous desires and boundless pain, and paint a majestic portrait of the times.