Novel of "Amendment", going out in 2001, brought to fortytwo-year Jonathan Франзену a world fame and ranked together him with the classics of American literature. A book divided the millionth drawing, got the National book bonus the USA and was translated into 35 languages.The history of family from the Middle West, told with irony and love, appeared deeply universal. Couple of Ламбертов and three their adult children look like any real family: they love and hate each other, corrupt and rescue life to each other - and nobody, including them, can not prevent to them to gather together at the christmas table, if it is wanted by a mother. A background America of 90th serves as for this eternal collision - with her external prosperity and internal alarm, in dim presentiment of changes.