New from Dave Eggers National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King". 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 & 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 & his splintering family together in the face of the global economys gale-force winds. This taut richly layered & elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment
- & a moving story of how we got here. "A master of the surprising metaphor Eggers great skill is in tracking the exuberant chaos of thought with all its sudden poignancies & unexpected joys". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Among the most influential writers in the English language". ("GQ"). " Eggers can write like an angel". (" Tablet"). Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" " How We Are Hungry" " You Shall Know Our Velocity" " What is the What" " The Wild Things & Zeitoun". " Zeitoun" was the winner of the American Book Award & the " Dayton Literary Peace Prize & " What is the What" was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award & won Frances Prix Medici. Eggers is the founder & editor of Mc Sweeneys an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago he lives in Northern California with his wife & two children."