New Releases by Dave Eggers

El libro en que se basa la película protagonizada por Tom Hanks Esperando al Rey. Esta es la historia de Alan Clay, un empresario con una difícil vida íntima que se enfrenta a una importante reunión de trabajo que puede cambiarle la vida. Estamos en 2010 y Alan Clay está en Yida esperando a reunirse con el rey Abdalá. Con más de cincuenta años, Alan se siente un fracasado. Y quizá lo sea: es un empresario norteamericano ahogado por las deudas, acosado por los acreedores y angustiado por la certeza de no poder pagar la matrícula de la universidad de su hija. Por si fuera poco, ahora le ha aparecido un extraño bulto en el cuello y su ex mujer vive en estado de furia permanente. Esta reunión es su última oportunidad para darle un giro a su vida: si él y su equipo fueran capaces de venderle la idea al rey y conseguir el contrato... En Un holograma para el rey, Dave Eggers nos muestra la lucha de un hombre para mantenerse y mantener a su familia en los difíciles tiempos de la economía global. Esta novela intensa, rica en detalles y matices, es una valiente evocación del momento que vivimos, y la apasionante historia de cómo hemos llegado aquí. La crítica ha dicho... «Dave Eggers se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno dentro de la pujante nueva literatura estadounidense.» Javier Montero, El Mundo

C''è un uomo, Alan Clay. È americano, divorziato, ha una figlia da mantenere, un''ex moglie che vive in California, che non intende contribuire in alcun modo alle spese e non fa che ripetergli di comportarsi da uomo. Ma che uomo è Alan Clay? Ha cinquantaquattro anni ed è senza lavoro. Per l''America aziendale è un soggetto inutilizzabile, bizzarro quanto un aeroplano fatto con il fango. La crisi dei mercati e della sua vita privata l''ha lasciato stremato, tendenzialmente ubriaco, con un conto cronicamente in rosso, ma ora non ha scelta: se vuole pagare le tasse del college di sua figlia, deve trovarsi presto un lavoro, e ben pagato. La sua unica chance si chiama re Abdullah, il miliardario sovrano dell''Economic City, un''immensa oasi in mezzo al nulla destinata a diventare la città del futuro. Il compito di Alan è difficilissimo. Deve convincere re Abdullah ad acquistare la sua mirabolante invenzione. Un ologramma in grado di far apparire chiunque in 3D, direttamente nella tenda del sovrano. Ma cosa succede se il re tarda ad arrivare? Se i funzionari rimbalzano Alan da un ufficio all''altro? L''esilio rischia di diventare interminabile. E mentre cerca disperatamente di evitare l''ennesimo fiasco della sua vita con la bella dottoressa Zahra Hakem, Alan scopre però che lì in mezzo al deserto una cosa la può fare: scrivere a sua figlia e provare a spiegarle che un genitore non è altro che un essere umano come gli altri, che fa degli errori e ha un ruolo piccolo nel mondo e nella storia, ma può pur sempre essere qualcosa di importante nella vita di qualcun altro. Ologramma per il re mette in scena una strepitosa allegoria delle frustrazioni della middle class, di migliaia di lavoratori occidentali che vedono sfuggire il proprio lavoro verso le frontiere dei nuovi stati emergenti, mentre crolla il sogno americano e le persone reali si perdono nel mondo virtuale. Dave Eggers torna al romanzo, ed è subito una lettura imprescindibile.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). 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 system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter''s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, 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.

Pulitzer Prize Finalist From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Eyes and the Impossibles comes the “profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir chronicling Dave Eggers’s life after losing both of his parents within a span of five weeks. When twenty-one-year-old Dave Eggers loses both of his parents within weeks of each other, he suddenly becomes the primary caregiver to his eight-year-old brother, Toph. What follows is a wild, imaginative, and brutally honest account of growing up too soon. Brimming with unconventional humor, poignant reflection, and unique narrative flair, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is more than just a memoir. Eggers manages to turn his story of grief into a fearless exploration of what it means to survive, to hold a family together, and tell your story on your own terms.

Antológiánk u200blapjain korunk angolszász spekulatív irodalmának legnagyobb alakjai tisztelegnek a közelmúltban elhunyt Mester előtt történeteikkel, melyek hol felemelőek, hol borongósak, hol szentimentálisak, hol hátborzongatóak, de valamennyi új és új kaland a képzelet határtalan birodalmában. NEIL GAIMAN (Sandman; Amerikai istenek) • MARGARET ATWOOD (Guvat és Gazella; A szolgálólány meséje) • JAY BONANSINGA (Száguldás a halálba; Agyrém) • SAM WELLER • DAVID MORRELL (Rambo; Settenkedők) • THOMAS F. MONTELEONE • LEE MARTIN • JOE HILL (A szív alakú doboz; Szarvak) • DAN CHAON • JOHN MCNALLY • JOE MENO • ROBERT MCCAMMON (Csak az enyém) • RAMSEY CAMPBELL • MORT CASTLE • ALICE HOFFMAN (Hetedik mennyország; Átkozott boszorkák) • JOHN MACLAY • JACQUELYN MITCHARD (Az óceán mélye) • GARY BRAUNBECK • BONNIE JO CAMPBELL • AUDREY NIFFENEGGER (Az időutazó felesége) • CHARLES YU • JULIA KELLER • DAVE EGGERS (Ahol a vadak várnak; Az árvízi csónakos) • BAYO OJIKUTU • KELLY LINK (Különb dolgok is) • HARLAN ELLISON

How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical and soulful collection of stories from the acclaimed author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Ranging from a doomed Irish setter’s tales of running and jumping (“After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”) to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship (“Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance”), and from the Egyptian desert to the asphalt of Interstate 5, these stories are Eggers at his finest. By turns devastating, clear-eyed and funn – incredibly funny – this collection is a marvel.

In 2003 vroeg filmregisseur Spike Jonze aan Dave Eggers of hij mee wilde werken aan de bewerking tot film van Maurice Sendaks klassieke kinderboek Where the Wild Things Are (Max en de Maximonsters in Nederland). Zo geschiede, en anno oktober 2009 is het dan zo ver. De film belooft een van de verrassingen van dit najaar te worden. Maar het wordt nog mooier: Sendak vroeg aan Eggers of hij een op zijn kinderboek geïnspireerd verhaal wilde schrijven voor alle leeftijden, en het resultaat is Max (en de Wild Things). Grotendeels gebaseerd op het boek en de film is Max (en de Wild Things) toch ook weer 100% een roman van Dave Eggers, en gaat over de verwarring van een jongetje, Max geheten, die zijn weg probeert te vinden in een wereld die hij niet onder controle heeft. Zijn vader is ervandoor, zijn moeder brengt haar tijd door met haar nieuwe (jongere) vriend, en zijn tienerzus heeft andere zaken aan haar hoofd. Max ontdekt dat hij in staat is tot verbazingwekkende transformaties: hij draagt zijn wolvenpak, bijt zijn moeder en kan zijn uitbarstingen niet altijd controleren. Na een ruzie ontvlucht hij het ouderlijk huis en verdwijnt in een bos waar hij een boot vindt, instapt en de open zee op vaart, met onbekende bestemming. Hij belandt op het eiland van de Wild Things, en wordt al snel gekroond tot koning. Maar Max realiseert zich al snel dat de Wild Things - manisch-depressieve dieren met vaste gewoontes en een ongepolijst temperament - net zoveel van hem willen als hij van hen...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak''s classic work, the bestselling author of The Circle “is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy’s mind and heart” (San Francisco Chronicle). Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old whose world is changing around him: His father is absent, his mother is increasingly distracted, and his teenage sister has outgrown him. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief, flooding his sister’s room and driving his mother half-crazy. Convinced his family doesn’t want him anymore, Max flees home, finds a boat and sails away. Arriving on an island, he meets strange and giant creatures who rage and break things, who trample and scream. These beasts do everything Max feels inside, and so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with these funny and complex monsters, Max can be the wildest thing of all.

An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac''s book, Eggers''s could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly

Valentino Achak Deng, un réfugié soudanais aux Etats-Unis, est attaqué dans son appartement par un couple de Noirs américains. Il passe plusieurs heures ligoté pendant lesquelles il repense à son histoire. Sud du Soudan, années 1980, Valentino vit dans le village chrétien de Marial Bai dans une famille prospère de marchands lorsque les musulmans du Nord entament une campagne de massacres.--[Memento].

English miscellaneous writings.

"Emocionante y conmovedora novela ... [que] narra la vida de Valentino Achak Deng, uno de los niños perdidos de la guerra civil de Sudán"--P. [4] of cover.