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A picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale - On the Road crossed with Henderson the Rain King… Deeply affecting." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed shortly after enlisting. When her ex ask...

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...

When Mae 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...

Wat is de Wat, Zeitoun en Een hologram voor de koning behoren tot de meest geliefde boeken in het oeuvre van Dave Eggers. Reizigers is een verzameling reisverhalen die inzicht geeft in de achtergrond van deze meesterlijke boeken. Eggers' reizen omspannen zijn hele carrière, en de hele wereld: van Cuba tot Thailand, van Syrië tot Sudan. Of hij nu naar de top van de Kilimanjaro klimt of de watervallen van IJsland bewondert, steeds weer zijn Egge...

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With the help of a cadre of Bay Area writing students, Eggers has again assembled an eclectic collection of fiction, nonfiction, humor, journalism, and alternative comics.

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique s...

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Ter gelegenheid van het vijftienjarig bestaan presenteren wij met trots Het beste van McSweeney's: een veelomvattende collectie prachtige verhalen uit dit opmerkelijke tijdschrift dat bekendstaat om zijn schitterende vormgeving. Het beste van McSweeney's is een essentieel retrospectief van de recente literaire geschiedenis, en bevat fullcolour-illustraties van kunstenaars als Marcel Dzama en Art Spiegelman. Het biedt een prachtige staalkaart a...

Nel 1963 l'autore e illustratore americano Maurice Sendak pubblicò "Nel paese dei mostri selvaggi": il libro narrava la storia di Max, che una sera mentre gioca in casa combina un guaio. Per punirlo, la mamma lo manda a letto senza cena. Nella cameretta, con l'aiuto della sua immaginazione, il bambino fa sorgere una specie di giungla e intraprende un viaggio alla volta del Paese delle creature selvagge. Sebbene si tratti di mostri terribili e ...

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. We have no idea what Issue 20 will be.

In een barak op een verlaten militaire basis, ver verwijderd van de bewoonde wereld, kijkt Thomas toe hoe de man die hij heeft gekidnapt wakker wordt. Kev, een astronaut, herkent zijn ontvoerder niet, maar Thomas herinnert zich hém wel. Kev roept om hulp. Hij rukt aan de ketting waarmee hij is vastgemaakt. Maar de golven van de oceaan en de wind overstemmen het geluid. Thomas verontschuldigt zich. Hij had het niet zover willen laten komen. D...

Quando l'uragano Kathrina si abbatté su New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, un americano di origini siriane, benestante e padre di quattro figli, decise di sfidare la tempesta e di restare, per proteggere la propria casa e l'attività lavorativa di ristrutturazioni immobiliari. Nei giorni successivi si mise a girare per le strade allagate su una canoa di seconda mano, portando aiuti e viveri alle persone e agli animali bloccati nelle case dall'in...

Il libro è un insieme di storie dai soggetti e dalle ambientazioni più diverse: si passa dai ricordi di un setter irlandese in fuga alle meditazioni umoristiche e agrodolci sul suicidio e sull'amicizia. In realtà il libro costituisce un'avventura narrativa organicamente strutturata che fotografa dai più diversi punti di osservazione quella ineludibile domanda, quella ricerca ora affannosa ora giocosa di qualcosa al di fuori di noi, di un senso...

Due amici, Will e Hand, decidono di fare il giro del mondo per liberarsi di una somma di denaro che la sorte ha messo loro inaspettatamente tra le mani. Purtroppo, viaggiare non si rivelerà affatto un compito facile e ancor meno lo sarà sbarazzarsi di quei soldi. "Conoscerete la nostra velocità" è il racconto della presa di coscienza, da parte di due giovani, della sofferenza e della morte, ma anche dell'inebriante imprevedibilità dell'esister...

»Eggers macht aus Wirklichkeit Literatur.« Der Spiegel Alan Clay ist ein Mann der Old Economy, der nicht ganz ohne eigenes Zutun so gut wie ausrangiert ist und nun darum kämpft, die Studiengebühren seiner Tochter bezahlen und einen Rest seiner Würde bewahren zu können. Er hat noch eine Chance, um seiner Finanzlage und damit seinem Leben die entscheidende Wendung zu geben: Für eine amerikanische IT-Firma fliegt er mit einem Team von jungen Leu...

»Das >1984< fürs Internetzeitalter« Zeit online - Das Kultbuch jetzt auf Deutsch Leben in der schönen neuen Welt des total transparenten Internets: Mit Der Circle hat Dave Eggers einen hellsichtigen, hochspannenden Roman über die Abgründe des gegenwärtigen Vernetzungswahns geschrieben. Ein beklemmender Pageturner, der weltweit Aufsehen erregt. Huxleys Schöne neue Welt reloaded: Die 24-jährige Mae Holland ist überglücklich. Sie hat einen Job e...

Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too' Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times

Founded by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen, and Mimi Lok, Voice of Witness has amplified the stories of hundreds of people impacted by some of the most crucial human rights crises of our time, including men and women living under oppressive regimes in Burma, Colombia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, public housing residents and undocumented workers in the United States, and exploited workers around the globe. This selection of narratives from these remarkable m...