Most Popular Books by Dave Eggers

A novel written by more than twenty-five major literary voices follows the tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan during the COVID-19 shutdown, as they gather on the roof, share stories, and become real neighbors.

Convinced whale songs are boring, young humpback whale Soren decides to write his own catchier tunes, and even when his music is met with less than encouraging feedback, he finds a way to keep composing.

In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn''t recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn''t want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn''t answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions. And so begins Dave Eggers''s tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. 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 answers the only way he knows how. ''Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola . . . another novel located in a frightened, divided, deceitful and possibly disintegrating America . . . Many skillfully delayed revelations . . . privately and publicly astute, confirming that the writer''s joke about genius in his debut title was not entirely misplaced.'' The Gaurdian ''Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original.'' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ''Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation.'' Independent ''One of the country''s leading literary eminences.'' Washington Post '' A story about someone who takes revenge against the world because he can''t fathom how he fits into it. . . This is a one-sitting read . . . Insightful.'' USA Today ''The faint echo of Plato''s dialogues . . . Raising questions about the appropriate relationship between authority and compassion.'' Kirkus ''As is always true with Eggers, those ideas - laid out here in quasi-Socratic dialogue - are inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we''re in - or how important it is that we, like the Israelites surrounding Zechariah, resurrect the once-glorious Temple. Eggers pulls no punches. . . Eggers makes these points even as he simultaneously manages empathy for Thomas'' plight, as a man who has inherited a fallen world he never made.'' Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ''A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing is compelling and the characterization astute.'' Booklist ''. . . as much a play as a novel, except there is no direction, no indication of action or scene beyond what the characters describe. So deft is he, however, that the setting and mood are perfectly clear..Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society.'' The Herald ''His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to new lengths...... compelling.'' Evening Standard ''I''ve never read a novel quite like this . . . Let''s say it''s a very interesting novel. But when has our Dave done anything uninteresting?'' The Times

Lucian enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.

Title and statement of responsibility spread out over 4 pages.

"It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers'' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked--losing all but the mansion--she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could have guessed that Annie and her crew would remove the whole mansion instead--rolling it away slowly on logs--while she and her son were still living in it?"--

Ce livre n’est pas un roman mais une histoire vraie. Originaire de Syrie, marié à une jeune Américaine convertie à l’islam, Zeitoun a fondé à La Nouvelle-Orléans une entreprise de bâtiment prospère avant que l’ouragan Katrina ne dévaste la ville en 2005.Malgré la fuite de sa famille, il décide de rester sur place. Sur un petit canoë, il explore les quartiers engloutis, vient en aide aux personnes prisonnières chez elles, nourrit les chiens abandonnés... Un jour, la Garde nationale l’arrête, l’accusant d’être un pilleur des rues. Dave Eggers, prix Médicis étranger pour Le grand Quoi, nous raconte l’histoire saisissante d’un homme confronté aux forces de la nature puis aux injustices d’une société violente.

The sixth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers''s The Forgetters series. Aurora Mahoney runs one of three whale-watching businesses on the Monterey coast. It''s a life of great beauty, wonder and camaraderie, but after one of her fellow captains retires, a new, and decidedly different, sort of captain takes his place. What had been a simple and charmed life is clouded by a sinister, and yet aloof, new force on the waterfront. This is a page-turning examination of what makes a paradise, and how easily one human can destroy it.

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...

T. S. Hawkins led an astounding life. Born in 1836, he grew up just down the way from Mark Twain in Missouri, in a log cabin. He became a teacher at age 17, and owned his own general store at 21. A few years later, he set out in a covered wagon, and made his way across the plains to California. He and a few other farmers got together and founded the town of Hollister, and Hawkins went on to build a hospital in his granddaughter''s name. It stands today. In Some Recollections of a Busy Life, he tells his story.

When Grandma comes to visit, and his parents leave them alone, the boy''s grandmother encourages him to imitate a jaguar, until completely transformed they venture out into the night, exploring the world from a new perspective, and with a new freedom--until it is difficult to distinguish imagination from reality.

Huxleys ”Schöne neue Welt“ reloaded: Die 24-jährige Mae Holland ist überglück-lich. Sie hat einen Job ergattert in der hippsten Firma der Welt, beim ”Circle“, einem freundlichen Internetkonzern mit Sitz in Kalifornien, der die Geschäftsfelder von Google, Apple, Facebook und Twitter geschluckt hat, indem er alle Kunden mit einer einzigen Internetidentität ausstattet, über die einfach alles abgewickelt werden kann. Mit dem Wegfall der Anonymität im Netz - so ein Ziel der ”drei Weisen“, die den Konzern leiten - wird es keinen Schmutz mehr geben im Internet und auch keine Kriminalität. Mae stürzt sich voller Begeisterung in diese schöne neue Welt mit ihren lichtdurchfluteten Büros und High-Class-Restaurants, wo Sterneköche kostenlose Mahlzeiten für die Mitarbeiter kreieren, wo internationale Popstars Gratis-Konzerte geben und fast jeden Abend coole Partys gefeiert werden. Sie wird zur Vorzeigemitarbeiterin und treibt den Wahn, alles müsse transparent sein, auf die Spitze. Doch eine Begegnung mit einem mysteriösen Kollegen ändert alles ... Mit seinem neuen Roman ”Der Circle“ hat Dave Eggers ein packendes Buch über eine bestürzend nahe Zukunft geschrieben, einen Thriller, der uns ganz neu über die Bedeutung von Privatsphäre, Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit nachden-ken und den Wunsch aufkommen lässt, die Welt und das Netz mögen uns bitte manchmal vergessen.

Based closely on true experiences of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who fled their war-ravaged country to come to the United States in the mid-1980s.