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Una historia conmovedora, asombrosa y genial es el relato autobiográfico de Dave Eggers en el que cuenta cómo tras la muerte de sus padres tiene que hacerse cargo de su hermano pequeño.Tras la muerte de sus padres, Dave se encuentra de un dia para otro al cuidado de su hermano Toph, de ocho años. Lo que en principio parece un acontecimiento devastador se transforma en un revulsivo: la vida esta llena de infinitas posibilidades y el mundo es un lugar demasiado grande y excitante como para hacerlo esperar, asi que Dave vende la casa familiar y emprende con su hermano un viaje por carretera en busca del sol californiano.Con su primer libro, estas memorias noveladas, Dave Eggers atrajo inmediatamente la atencion de la critica internacional e inauguro su estilo narrativo, lleno de juegos literarios. Cargada de ternura y sentido del humor, Una historia conmovedora, asombrosa y genial es un canto a la vida y la juventud.Reseñas:Una obra virtuosa, grande, atrevida, maniaco-depresiva, que anuncia ruidosamente el debut de un nuevo escritor lleno de talento, si, lleno de un asombroso talento.Michiko Kakutani,The New York TimesLa fuerza y la energia que atraviesan este libro podrian mover un tren.David SedarisEn este libro Eggers crea algo universal, algo crudo y real y maravilloso que trasciende cualquier espiritu de epoca y consigue tratar mordazmente temas importantes que a menudo resultan demasiado desalentadores para escritores jovenes; mortalidad, juventud, el artificio de escribir. Este es un libro hermosamente conseguido, que arranca carcajadas y resulta completamente inolvidable.San Francisco Chronicle

Relatos precisos y afinados y audazmente experimentales de la mano de uno de los autores americanos de primera l#nea. Los quince relatos de Guardianes de la intimidad abarcan escenarios y personajes tan apasionantes como l#ricos: la historia de supervivencia de un setter irland#s, la proeza ir#nica de una mujer que escala el Kilimanjaro, la relaci#n amorosa sin amor de dos viejos amigos en Costa Rica... Todos ellos muestran la plenitud narrativa de Eggers, un autor que puede ser devastador, l#cido y divertido hasta extremos impensables. Rese#as:"Uno de los autores m#s interesantes de la literatura norteamericana reciente."Jord# Punt#, El Pa#s

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 a trillion dollars on war? Where did America go wrong? If you re Thomas, a young man nursing migraines and a lack of direction, this calls for drastic action. To find some answers, Thomas kidnaps a NASA astronaut and brings him to an abandoned military base on the edge of the California coast. Then the questioning begins. The answers must be honest. The back and forth might even hurt. It might get uncomfortable. But eventually the truth will emerge."

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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.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.

For almost twenty years, Dave Eggers has been travelling widely and chronicling his interactions with the countries and people he has encountered during his journey across continents. "Visitants" is his first collection of travel writing, one that spans his entire career and includes pieces on Sudan, China and a dozen other destinations. The book begins at 140kph, with Eggers being driven across the deserts of Saudi Arabia by a hired driver who declares, "American, boom boom!". This opening sets the stage for the collection's vast cultural scope and ever-present sense of adventure, inquisitiveness and daring. From Saudi Arabia, Eggers takes us further on caterwauling sojourns in the likes of Cuba and Thailand, followed by brief stopovers in Croatia and Syria, and thought-provoking, meditative expositions on South Sudan, expanding on issues explored in his previous books. Globetrotters and Eggers fans alike will find a faithful companion in his unique combination of humour, humanism and empathy.

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.

on to be a major motion picture directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Tom Hanks, Tom Skerritt, and Sarita Choudhury.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 her

Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.

From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a brilliant new black comedy about modern America.A mother and her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the 'Chateau') and embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness. At first their trip feels like a vacation: they spot wild animals, build bonfires, enjoy the scenery. But as Josie drives her kids deeper into the forest, dodging wildfires and increasingly eccentric locals, we learn more of the events that forced her to escape her old life. Fraught with unexpected encounters from the sublime to the ridiculous, her tiny family must survive this surreal adventure at all costs, in order to finally discover something clean and redemptive out at the very edge of civilization.Heroes of the Frontier is a captivating and hilarious novel about family, loss and recovery, and a powerful examination of contemporary American life.

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the worlds most powerful internet company, she feels shes 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 companys 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 cant believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the worldeven 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 womans ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Mr Eggers is delighted to bring eager readers another packed issue of McSweeney's, his instructive and highly entertaining corrective to the ills of modern life. McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, guest edited by the inimitable Michael Chabon, will take you to places you never knew existed, send delicious shivers down your spine, and have your heart pounding healthily in your chest. The ghost story, the horror story, the detective story; stories of suspense, terror, fantasy and the plain macabre - all can be found gracing the pages within. Such celebrated writers as Gaiman, Moody, Hornby, King, Elmore Leonard, Harlan Ellison and Glen David Gold amongst others, have all put pen to paper in celebration of the art of genre.

Flying from Chicago, these twenty-something, philanthropic Phileas Foggs (Generation Y's Bob and Bing, in fact) hope to start their odyssey in Greenland and finish on the top of Cheops pyramid in Egypt. Of course bad weather, visa regulations, the intransigence of airline authorities and "the unmitigated slowness of moving from place to place" consistently thwart their plans. ("Should we not have teleporting by now?" an exasperated Will asks at one point.) Journeying to Senegal through Morocco and onto Estonia and Latvia, the hapless duo devise increasingly bizarre means to, arbitrarily, hand money to needy locals. They try to pin wads of notes onto goats, over-tip pole dancers, hire cabs for minute distances and create a "real treasure" hunt, replete with map.

Una vez más, Dave Eggers reúne una colección estelar de textos publicados a los largo de varios años en los mejores números de la revista de culto McSweeneys. Este segundo volumen contiene relatos breves, articulos de no ficcion y algun que otro experimento narrativo. Todo ello de la mano de los escritores norteamericanos mas importantes de la actualidad. Eclectico, excentrico y talentoso. The Times

Fundada y editada por Dave Eggers, esta es la revista literaria más relevante en el panorama de la narrativa estadounidense de los últimos años. El nombre de McSweeneys es sinónimo de talento y creatividad; apuestas editoriales que cubren no solo el territorio de la ficcion, sino que incluyen otras disciplinas artisticas. En este primer volumen se ofrece una muestra de los mejores textos recopilados bajo el criterio de Dave Eggers.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all.