Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel concerns itself with secrets, lies and information – both in a conventional, personal sense, and in the context of today’s digital age, with its constant conflict between those who seek to hide knowledge and those who seek to disclose it. Its first chief protagonist is Pip – née Purity – Tyler, a lost, young neurotic based in an Oakland squat forever wanting to discover who her father is: something her erratic and moody mother refuses to divulge. The other is Andreas Wolf, an East German-born Bill Gates-cum-Julian Assange internet potentate. He ostensibly seeks to “make the world a better place” by calling governments to account with his information leaks, but in private he’s a sordid sexual predator wi