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What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.

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.

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.

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.

« Valentino n'a pas huit ans lorsqu'il est contraint de fuir Marial Bai, son village natal, traqué par les cavaliers arabes, ces miliciens armés par Khartoum. Comme des dizaines de milliers d'autres

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

Featuring fourteen stories, this book includes jungle warfare, boomerang tycoons, track-team romances and advice-giving animals. Dividido en catorce historias, este libro incluye guerra en la selva, empresarios del boomerang, romances trepidantes y animales consejeros.

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf In any other era, he would be considered a boy In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged His home life is problematic His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the foyer...

From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha andThe Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this timeless novel questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace.

Quand Mae Holland est embauchée par le Cercle, elle n’en revient pas. Ce géant d’Internet relie e-mails, réseaux sociaux et transactions bancaires dans un système universel, clé de voûte d’une sociét

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 daughters college tuition, and final

Discover a stunning new children's tale from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier and What Is the What. When things fall down, who lifts them up? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels, mere inches below you as you sit in class or eat a banana? What if it were up to just two kids to stop these forces? What would it feel like to know the fate of an entire town rested on your shoulders? Twelve-year-old Gran Flowerpetal is about to find out. When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver handle into a hillside and opens a doorway to underground, he knows that she is extraordinary and brave, and that he will have no choice but to follow her, and help her save the town (and the known world). With luck on their side, and some discarded hockey sticks for good measure, they might just emerge as heroes.

FictionJosie, 40 ans, dentiste, décide de tout quitter, sa banlieue pavillonnaire étouffante, ses patients procéduriers et son ex-mari lamentablement l¢che. Elle loue un camping-car, prend ses deux j

Grazie alla sua capacita di avvitare lampadine in modo fotogenico, Will ha ottenuto una somma inaspettata ed e determinato a donarne la gran parte ai bisognosi dei paesi piu poveri. La vita, da quando e morto uno dei suoi due migliori amici, Jack, sembra aver perso di significato. Cosi decide di partire con Hand, l'altro compagno di avventure, per un viaggio di una settimana attorno al mondo alla ricerca di chi, piu degno, ricevera quei soldi. Accompagnati dal ricordo di Jack, scombussolati da una serie di imprevisti climatici e burocratici, Will e Hand si dovranno confrontare con difficolta sempre crescenti, non ultima quella di convincere i bisognosi di Senegal, Marocco, Estonia e Lettonia ad accettare il loro denaro. Tra improbabili avventure sul ghiaccio, banconote seppellite e una mappa del tesoro nascosta nel cerchione di uno pneumatico, collegamenti aerei inesistenti e traveller's cheque incollati a groppe di asini, i due protagonisti scopriranno di avere una visione del mondo alquanto ridotta. E che donare non e mai una scelta lineare. Grazie a una scrittura audace e inventiva, prende vita un racconto al tempo stesso esilarante e commovente sul senso del viaggio, l'elaborazione del lutto e l'importanza di fermarsi sempre a parlare con gli sconosciuti per la strada.

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.

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."

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