A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers (English) Paperback Book

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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.

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International literary superstar Dave Eggers on the biggest subject of them all - the state of the world . . .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.In this critically-acclaimed novel, Dave Eggers 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. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here.

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East and West, capitalism, globalisation: these are the big themes tackled in this new novel by one of our most admired writers, which promises to be both powerful and comic. A struggling businessman in a rising Saudi city fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale force winds. Now in paperback.

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'Impressive, startling, compelling . . . proves how staggering a genius Eggers can be' Independent American businessman Alan Clay is in Saudi Arabia. He's here selling IT to King Abdullah to help conjure a glittering city from the desert sands. But the king has yet to arrive. And Alan is slowly coming apart - he's up to his neck in debt, he's trying to keep hold of his family and he knows that this will be his very last roll of the dice. As the days stretch into weeks, Alan gets drawn into a world of mirages - where hopes and dreams shimmer and vanish under a blistering desert sun . . . ' Irresistible. Eggers' most accomplished book to date' Guardian 'Taut, richly layered and elegiac. A powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and the moving story of how we got there' GQ 'Clever, likeable and very entertaining' Guardian 'Eggers's best book' London Review of Books 'A Beckettian masterpiece' Daily Telegraph 'Hugely impressive' Mail on Sunday 'Gripping, strange and terrifyingly believable' Sunday Times [backlist thumbnails]

Author Biography

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 Medicis 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 ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and is the cofounder of Voice of Witness, a book series that illuminates human rights crises through oral history.He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letter. His work has been translated into forty- two languages.

Review

A fascinating novel * New Yorker *A spare but moving elegy for the American century * Publishers Weekly *Completely engrossing * Fortune *Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. [Hologram] is a strike against the current state of global economic in justice -- Elissa Schappell * Vanityfair.com *

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A fascinating novel

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Completely engrossing

Details ISBN0241145864 Author Dave Eggers Year 2013 ISBN-10 0241145864 ISBN-13 9780241145869 Media Book Pages 336 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Format Paperback DEWEY 813.6 Language English UK Release Date 2013-09-05 Publication Date 2013-09-05 Alternative 9780241964347 Audience General NZ Release Date 2015-07-01 AU Release Date 2015-07-01 We've got this

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