' Le café pouvait être humé, goûté et touché. Il s'agissait peut-être, avec l'essence, de l'un des produits les plus résistants aux crises économiques. Le carburant pour les machines, le carburant pour les gens. '
À vingt-quatre ans, Mokhtar, un Américano-Yéménite, abandonne sa vie aux États-Unis pour se rendre au Yémen, sur la terre du café. Brillant et passionné, il va à la rencontre des cultivateurs des régions les plus reculées, espérant amé-liorer leurs conditions de travail. Mais en 2015, la guerre civile éclate. Les bombes pleuvent et l'ambassade américaine ferme ses portes. Le jeune homme doit trouver le moyen de fuir sans pour autant sacrifier ses rêves...
Avec son inimitable talent de conteur, Dave Eggers livre l'histoire vraie de Mokhtar, qui tenta l'impossible pour redonner ses lettres de noblesse au café du Yémen.
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 société numérique prônant la civilité et la transparence. Mae se passionne pour son nouveau travail - même s'il l'absorbe entièrement, l'éloignant de ses proches, et même si elle s'expose aux yeux du monde en participant au dernier projet du Cercle, une avancée technologique aussi considérable qu'inquiétante...
Ce qui ressemble d'abord au portrait d'une femme ambitieuse devient rapidement un roman au suspense haletant, qui étudie les liens entre vie privée et addiction aux réseaux sociaux, et interroge les limites de la connaissance.
Josie, quarante ans, dentiste, décide de tout quitter : sa banlieue pavillonnaire étouffante, ses patients procéduriers et son ex-mari lamentablement lâche. Elle loue un camping-car et embarque ses deux enfants pour l'Alaska. C'est le début d'une odyssée à travers la nature hostile, ravagée par les feux de forêt. Ils rencontreront d'étonnants inconnus - précieuses alliées, séduisants solitaires et extravagants amateurs d'armes - et tenteront, à tout prix, de trouver enfin leur place dans le monde.
Ce roman de mésaventures dessine avec humour et tendresse le portrait d'une héroïne moderne au bord de la crise de nerfs, une nouvelle Ulysse en quête de courage et de réponses à une question essentielle : que faire d'une vie?
Sur le grand navire la Gloire, le capitaine qui le dirigeait avec habileté doit quitter la barre. Son successeur, lui, ne connaît rien à la navigation. Affublé d'une plume jaune dans les cheveux, il se révèle vite erratique et grotesque. Jour après jour, il inscrit ses opinions sur le tableau blanc de la cafétéria, se vante de posséder une anatomie exceptionnelle et jette par-dessus bord quiconque lui déplaît. Jusqu'à ce qu'apparaisse à l'horizon un célèbre pirate, longtemps redouté par les passagers de la Gloire mais vénéré par le Capitaine pour ses démonstrations de virilité lorsqu'il monte torse nu à cheval...
Avec ce roman inédit en France, Dave Eggers signe une satire féroce et hilarante des États-Unis en proie à la folie.
Un pays non nommé se relève avec peine d'une sombre décennie de guerre civile. Afin de commémorer l'armistice tant attendu, le gouvernement ordonne la construction d'une route reliant le Sud dévasté à la capitale du Nord victorieux. Deux entrepreneurs étrangers ont pour mission de goudronner en quelques jours ce chemin long de plusieurs kilomètres, après quoi sera organisée une grande parade où les gens du Sud se rendront au Nord en empruntant cette nouvelle voie. Mais la cohabitation entre ces deux hommes que tout oppose ne sera pas simple, et la nouvelle alliance entre les deux parties de la nation semble trop belle pour être vraie.
Avec La parade, Dave Eggers questionne brillamment la valeur des tentatives de reconstruction par ceux-là mêmes qui sont à l'origine du carnage, et nous tient en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page.
"Je suis sans racines, arraché de toutes les fondations, un orphelin qui élève un orphelin, et je veux prendre tout ce qui existe et le Remplacer par ce que j'ai fait. Je n'ai rien sauf mes amis et ce qui reste de ma petite famille. J'ai besoin de communier, j'ai besoin de répercussions, j'ai besoin d'amour, de relations, d'échange. Je suis prêt à signer s'ils veulent m'aimer. Laissez-moi essayer, laissez-moi le prouver."
Alors qu'il n'a que vingt ans, Dave Eggers perd, en l'espace d'un mois, ses deux parents. Il a désormais la charge de son petit frère, Toph, avec lequel il déménage en Californie. Sous le soleil de la côte ouest des États-Unis, Dave et Toph s'apprivoisent et vivent, malgré leur passé déchirant, une jeunesse heureuse, racontée avec une ironie émouvante.
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 gosses, le jeune Soudanais va parcourir à pied des centaines de kilomètres pour échapper au sort des enfants soldats et des esclaves. Valentino passera ensuite plus de dix ans dans des camps de réfugiés en Ethiopie et au Kenya, avant d'obtenir un visa pour l'Amérique. Dans une nouvelle jungle - urbaine cette fois - Valentino l'Africain découvre une face inattendue du racisme.
À mi-chemin entre le roman picaresque et le récit d'apprentissage, ce livre est avant tout le fruit d'un échange. Eggers l'Américain a écouté Valentino l'Africain se raconter. Sa plume impertinente fait mouche et insuffle à cette autobiographie une dimension épique, qui rappelle celle de Mark Twain.
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.
Avec les meilleures intentions du monde, Alan Clay a participé à la faillite de quelques belles entreprises industrielles américaines. Devenu consultant, il a accepté une mission de premier plan, qui pourrait sauver l'honneur de l'économie nationale et sa propre réputation : il doit convaincre le roi d'Arabie saoudite d'adopter une technologie de visioconférence par hologramme, tout juste mise au point par la société Reliant.
Mais le roi tarde à venir et Alan, à force de rencontres rocambolesques, finit par se demander s'il comprend quoi que ce soit aux moeurs de ce pays énigmatique. Perdue dans le désert, son équipe essaie désespérément de capter le wi-fi, tandis que de nouvelles puissances industrielles intriguent pour obtenir le marché et qu'Alan suspecte une grosseur dans son cou d'être à l'origine de son manque de charisme.
Dans un style éloquent par sa précision et sa clarté, avec une grande puissance d'évocation, Dave Eggers transforme la quête de son héros en une brillante et mordante méditation sur le destin de son pays.
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New York Times Bestseller
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.
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a 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. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
“These tales reinvigorate…the short story with a jittery sense of adventure.” --San Francisco Chronicle
Dave Eggers--Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and author of What Is the What and The Circle, among other books--demonstrates his mastery of the short story.
"Another""What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust""The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water""On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home""Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance""She Waits, Seething, Blooming""Quiet""Your Mother and I""Naveed""Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone""About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her""Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly""After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"
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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.
In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic work, Dave Eggers brings an imaginary world vividly to life, telling the story of a lonely boy navigating the emotional journey away from boyhood.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil wars
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these . . .Truly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph.'If there was ever any doubt that Dave Eggers is one of our most important storytellers, What Is the What should put it to rest... [A] strange, beautiful and unforgettable work' San Francisco Chronicle'A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising' London Review of BooksAll of the author's proceeds from this book will go to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation. Read more at: www.valentinoachakdeng.com.
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.
@20@From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of @18@The Circle@19@, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. @18@Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?@19@ 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.@16@@95@#160;@16@@21@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 his 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.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John BoyegaTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet'Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington PostWhen Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ... 'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro'Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. 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. 'With each tightly controlled book, Eggers's fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling . . . Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?' Independent 'An angry and astute investigation into the state of America . . . Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola' Mark Lawson, Guardian 'One of our fiercest and most compelling writers' Sunday Times
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 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.
'A master of the surprising metaphor, Eggers's great skill is in tracking the exuberant chaos of thought, with all its sudden poignancies and unexpected joys' Daily Telegraph'Among the most influential writers in the English language' GQ 'Eggers can write like an angel' Tablet
In August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded streets by canoe. He protected neighbours' properties, fed trapped dogs and rescued survivors. But eventually he came to the attention of those 'guarding' this drowned city. Only then did Zeitoun's nightmare really begin.Zeitoun is the powerful, ultimately uplifting true story of one man's courage when confronted with an awesome force of nature followed by more troubling human oppression.
How We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers's short stories that twist and inspire the imagination
Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and through its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendant. Yet while celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also proved himself time and again one of the modern masters of the form.This unmissable collection is Egger's first, and showcases his talents in a variety of stories that are short-short, short-long and every length in between; and in stories that are dark, funny, inspiring, daring and endlessly inventive (including the acclaimed 'Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly'). In short, in stories that will make you appreciate that Dave Eggers and the short story were made for each other - and, in turn, for you. 'Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation' Independent 'Brilliant, confident floods of language' Sunday Herald 'Intensely pleasurable, striking in its beauty...a triumph of both form and content' Guardian
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic
Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged.After a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign - the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility?'A life-affirming delight' GQ'Compelling, fantastical, engrossing' Shortlist'Let the wild rumpus start!' Grazia
Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps they'll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every step and the natives prove far from grateful to their benefactors, Will and Hand find that the world is an infinitely bigger, more surreal and exhilarating place than they ever realised. In fact, it's somewhere to get lost in ...
'Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too' Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times 'Is this how all orphans would speak - 'I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I know' - if they had Dave Eggers's prodigious linguistic gifts? For he does write wonderfully, and this is an extremely impressive debut' John Banville, Irish Times 'A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book that noisily announces the debut of a talented - yes, staggeringly talented - new writer' - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Exhilarating . . . Profoundly moving, occasionally angry and often hilarious . . . A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly' - New York Times Book Review 'What is really shocking and exciting is the book's sheer rage. AHWOSG is truly ferocious, like any work of genius. Eggers - self-reliant, transcendent, expansive - is Emerson's ideal Young American. [The book] does itself justice: it is a settling of accounts. And it is almost too good to be believed' - London Review of Books 'A hilarious book . . . In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole' - Time 'Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger . . . He takes us close, shows us as much as he can bear . . . His book is a comic and moving witness that transcends and transgresses formal boundaries' - Washington Post
