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Depois do best-seller de memórias Uma comovente obra de espantoso talento, e do romance You Shall Know Our Velocity, o jovem autor americano Dave Eggers estréia como contista em A fome de todos nós. Em 15 contos, o escritor trata da fome dos seres humanos, que não sabem bem o que desejam – mas desejam – e querem passar da superfície do mundo – ainda que, humanos, também não saibam bem como. Dois amigos criam uma relação amorosa, por alguns dia...

Geheel gerestylede midprice-editie van het nieuwste meesterwerk van Dave Eggers, dat lovend ontvangen werd en op de shortlist stond van de National Book Awards 2012.Alan Clay heeft alles verloren door de crisis: zijn bedrijf, zijn huis, zijn vrouw, zijn dochter. Hij reist af naar Saoedi-Arabië om daar een deal te maken met koning Abdullah, in een laatste poging eindelijk iets groots tot stand te brengen. Een hologram voor de koning is een aang...

* In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college fees and finally do something great.

Dave Eggers erzählt in seiner vielfach ausgezeichneten literarischen Reportage die Geschichte der amerikanisch-syrischen Familie Zeitoun. Nachdem Hurrikan Katrina im August 2005 New Orleans verwüstet hat, schickt der Familienvater Abdulrahman Zeitoun seine Frau und die vier Kinder nach Arizona und bleibt selbst in der Stadt. Mit seinem Kanu fährt er durch die überfluteten Straßen und hilft, wo er kann bis er am 6. September ohne Angabe von Grü...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives.When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, an...

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency.

Paperback edition of this thrilling and timely novel about our obsession with the internet, as a woman gets caught up in working from the California campus of the world's most powerful internet company, which combines information to create one online identity for everyone, and a new age of transparency.

A collection of travel writing from the acclaimed author, novelist and founder of "McSweeney's". His travels range from Saudi Arabia to Cuba, Thailand, Croatia, Syria and South Sudan. *Also appeared in February Buyer's Notes*

From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tour de force of dialogue and dark humor, coursing emotions and tight control. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking solutions the only way he knows how. What do you do when you're full of questions: what happened to missions to the moon? Why spend ...

For many years, the author has been travelling widely and chronicling his interactions with the countries and people he has encountered during his journey across continents. This title offers a collection of his travel writing, one that spans his entire career and includes pieces on Sudan, China and a dozen other destinations.

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, The Circle is the exhilarating novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of Heroes of the Frontier. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating syste...

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In Jules Verne's science-fiction classic, re-imagined by Dave Eggers in modern times and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo, the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax hunts down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorizing the oceans. But the truth is stranger than expected ...

Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha, The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier, A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award, and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix M¿cis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world, and of Sch...

To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called "a key barometer of the literary climate" by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney's--a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work from a remarkable magazine. Drawing on the full range of the journal thus far--from the very earliest volumes to our groundbreaking, Chris Ware--edited graphic novel issu...

A Hologram for the King takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac no...

»Packend, wunderschön und traurig.« The New York Times Book Review Ein Hologramm für den König ist die anrührende, absurde Geschichte von Alan Clay, einem amerikanischen Geschäftsmann kurz vor dem Bankrott, der mitten in der Wüste von Saudi-Arabien auf den alles rettenden Deal hofft. Erzählt von Dave Eggers, einem der wagemutigsten, interessantesten und engagiertesten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart.

The superb, bestselling story of David Eggers's extraordinary life with his brother

McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best and largest-circulation literary journals. The journal is committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. MCSWEENEY'S 26 comes in three parts: two small, books of stories, with work set overseas (Kazakhstan, Bosnia, Spain, Canada) and on our shores (Arkansas, Oregon, Boston, Los Angeles) by writers ...

Ein brillantes Kammerspiel in der kalifornischen WüsteThomas ist ein Getriebener, der Antworten sucht. Antworten auf die Fragen, die er sich als junger weißer Amerikaner, der aus vielen Rastern fällt, selbst stellt. Und Thomas hat nur ein Mittel, diese Antworten zu finden: Er fragt. Er entführt nacheinander Menschen in eine stillgelegte Militäranlage, kettet sie dort in alten Baracken an und fragt. Fragt einen Astronauten, warum er nie zum Mar...