The Catcher in the Rye

The boy's name is Holden Caulfield, and he lives in the story "The Catcher in the Rye," still worshiped by millions of "misunderstood" teenagers. Holden is endowed with an "absolute, moral sense" - he instantly discerns falseness, as if his skin has been stripped away, his nerve endings exposed; his hypersensitivity is a special kind of radar, capturing what others pass by without a second thought. But he is not an angel and not a "child of flowers"; he is a difficult teenager in all his glory: with his anxieties, worries, and talents, but also with all his quirks. Yet Holden also has a strange, but very touching dream… "The Catcher in the Rye" has been translated into almost all major languages of the world and is among the list of the 100 best English-language novels.