New Releases by Dave Eggers

From Lonely Planet, the world''s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012''s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world''s best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler. Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths, sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging, it reveals about ourselves. By turns comic, dramatic, and moving - from Francine Prose''s confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre''s search for Hemingway''s muse in Italy - these 30 short tales reveal the joys, perils, and surprises of travel, and that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction. Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure, or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures, embark on this literary journey around the world and explore your passion for travel now! Authors: Lonely Planet, Don George, Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Karen Joy Fowler, Stefan Merrill Block, Francine Prose, DBC Pierre, Fiona Kidman, Alexander McCall Smith, Keija Parssinen, MJ Hyland, Catherine Lacey, Rebecca Dinerstein, Lloyd Jones, Porochista Khakpour, Jack Livings, Marina Lewycka, Lydia Millet, Suzanne Joinson, Sophie Cunningham, Christina Nichol, Mandy Sayer, Steven Amsterdam, Marie-Helene Bortino, Shirley Streshinsky, Steven Hall, David Shafer, Avi Duckor-Jones, Lily King, Aliya Whitely, and Natalie Baszile About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world''s leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet''s mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. Lonely Planet''s award-winning list travel literature anthologies include An Innocent Abroad (Independent Publishers Award, Silver for Essays, 2015) and A Fork in the Road (Lowell Thomas Award, Bronze for Travel Book, 2014; James Bear Award, Nominated for Travel Fiction, 2014). ''Lonely Planet. It''s on everyone''s bookshelves; it''s in every traveller''s hands. It''s on mobile phones. It''s on the Internet. It''s everywhere, and it''s telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.'' -- Fairfax Media ''Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.'' - New York Times Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler''s Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

For ten years, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its remarkable oral history book series. Founded by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen and Mimi Lok, Voice of Witness has amplified the stories of hundreds of people impacted by some of the most crucial human rights crises of our time, including men and women living under oppressive regimes in Burma, Colombia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe; public housing residents and undocumented workers in the United States; and exploited workers around the globe. This selection of narratives from these remarkable men and women is many things: an astonishing record of human rights issues in the 21st century; a testament to the resilience and courage of the most marginalized among us; and an opportunity to better the understand the world we live in through human connection and a participatory vision of history.

A dazzling collection of original essays by some of America''s most notable young writers on the cultural impact of the Star Wars films A Galaxy Not So Far Away is the first ever exploration of the innumerable ways the Star Wars films have forever altered our cultural and artistic landscape. Edited by Glenn Kenny, a senior editor and critic at Premiere magazine, this singular collection allows some of the nation''s most acclaimed writers to anatomize, criticize, celebrate, and sometimes simply riff on the prismatic aftereffects of an unparalleled American phenomenon. Jonathan Lethem writes of the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times as his mother lay dying of cancer. Neal Pollack chips in with the putative memoir of a certain young man having problems with his father, written in the voice of Holden Caulfield. Erika Krouse ponders the code of the Jedi Knight and its relation to her own pursuit of the martial arts. New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell meditates upon the mysterious figure Lando Calrissian. A classic assemblage of pop writing at its best, A Galaxy Not So Far Away is a book for everyone who loves Star Wars films and seeks to understand just what it is about these films that has so enchanted an entire generation of filmgoers.

More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Traditional Chinese edition of The Circle by Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). A suspense thriller, The Circle is An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2013. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

The bestselling author of The Circle delivers a tour de force of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking solutions the only way he knows how. 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" (USA Today). 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.

Het briljante en universele verhaal van een man die zijn land probeert te begrijpen en nog maar één mogelijkheid ziet om antwoord te krijgen op zijn vragen

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.

El libro en que se basa la película protagonizada por Tom Hanks Esperando al Rey. Esta es la historia de Alan Clay, un empresario con una difícil vida íntima que se enfrenta a una importante reunión de trabajo que puede cambiarle la vida. Estamos en 2010 y Alan Clay está en Yida esperando a reunirse con el rey Abdalá. Con más de cincuenta años, Alan se siente un fracasado. Y quizá lo sea: es un empresario norteamericano ahogado por las deudas, acosado por los acreedores y angustiado por la certeza de no poder pagar la matrícula de la universidad de su hija. Por si fuera poco, ahora le ha aparecido un extraño bulto en el cuello y su ex mujer vive en estado de furia permanente. Esta reunión es su última oportunidad para darle un giro a su vida: si él y su equipo fueran capaces de venderle la idea al rey y conseguir el contrato... En Un holograma para el rey, Dave Eggers nos muestra la lucha de un hombre para mantenerse y mantener a su familia en los difíciles tiempos de la economía global. Esta novela intensa, rica en detalles y matices, es una valiente evocación del momento que vivimos, y la apasionante historia de cómo hemos llegado aquí. La crítica ha dicho... «Dave Eggers se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno dentro de la pujante nueva literatura estadounidense.» Javier Montero, El Mundo

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland 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. 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 company’s 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 can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—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. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

»Ein herzzerreißend komisches Genie.« Denis Scheck in 3sat-Kulturzeit Dave Eggers'' erster Roman, der ihn zu einem internationalen Starautor machte, ist ein umwerfendes Werk von herzzerreißender Genialität.»Eine wunderbare Mischung aus Tragik und Komik.« Berliner Zeitung Die Eckpfeiler der Geschichte sind autobiographisch: Innerhalb weniger Wochen verlieren Dave, 22, und Toph, acht Jahre alt, nicht nur die Mutter, sondern auch den Vater – beide sterben an Krebs. Was bleibt da noch? Die Brüder entscheiden sich, durchzustarten: Sie fahren mit dem Auto ins Abenteuer, nach Kalifornien, wo sie unbedingt ausgeflippte Nackte und Hare-Krishna-Jünger sehen wollen. Dave ist plötzlich nicht nur Tophs großer Bruder, sondern auch Vater und Mutter. Kein leichtes Schicksal, doch Dave Eggers versteht es, davon höchst komisch zu erzählen. In seinem Roman erweist Eggers sich als Entwaffnungskünstler, der mit Lesererwartungen spielt, sie aufs Witzigste ad absurdum führt, uns verblüfft und fesselt. Allein schon sein Vorwort ist ein »entwaffnendes Werk von unüberschaubarer Angreifbarkeit«. Jungle World Nach dem Erscheinen seines Buches wurde Dave Eggers mit J.D. Salinger, Frank McCourt, Douglas Coupland, Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace oder David Sedaris verglichen. Unbestreitbar ist: »Eggers ist ein Star, ein Kultbuchautor« (taz).

Ein literarischer Messerwurf ins Herz unserer Zeit – ein Mann, den die Globalisierung an den Abgrund drängt Dave Eggers ist einer der interessantesten, engagiertesten und wagemutigsten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart. Das darf, das muss man so sagen. Sein neuer Roman erzählt die anrührende, absurde Geschichte von Alan Clay, einem amerikanischen Geschäftsmann kurz vor dem Bankrott, der mitten in der Wüste von Saudi-Arabien auf den alles rettenden Deal hofft.Alan Clay ist ein Mann der Old-Economy, der nicht ganz ohne eigenes Zutun so gut wie ausrangiert ist und nun darum kämpft, die Studiengebühren seiner Tochter bezahlen und einen Rest seiner Würde bewahren zu können. Er hat noch eine Chance, um seiner Finanzlage und damit seinem Leben die entscheidende Wendung zu geben: Für eine amerikanische IT-Firma fliegt er mit einem Team von jungen Leuten nach Saudi-Arabien. Dort, wo mitten in der Wüste eine funkelnde Wirtschaftsmetropole entstehen soll, wollen sie dem saudischen König ihre hochentwickelte IT-Technik vorführen, mit der sie die Stadt versorgen möchten. In einem Zelt am Rande der riesigen Baustelle, aus der eines Tages die Stadt erwachsen soll, kämpfen sie nicht nur mit drückender Hitze und wackligem WiFi, sondern warten auf einen König, der einfach nicht kommt.»Ein Hologramm für den König« ist ein Roman über das, was die globalisierte Wirtschaft mit dem Menschen macht. Mit großer Empathie und herrlich absurder Komik erzählt, zielt er mitten ins Herz der heutigen Zeit. Vielschichtig, traurig, rührend. Ein literarischer Meilenstein.

»Ein herzzerreißendes Werk von umwerfendem Mitgefühl« Felicitas von Lovenberg, FAZ Mit sieben Jahren verliert Valentino alles, seine Familie, seine Freunde und seine Heimat, den Sudan. Er flieht mit Tausenden von anderen Kindern über Äthiopien nach Kenia, von wo aus er schließlich in die USA gelangt. Was Valentino dabei erlebt, ist kaum zu beschreiben. Umso erstaunlicher ist, mit wie viel Wärme, Zuversicht und sogar Humor er davon erzählt. Dave Eggers hat seine Geschichte in einem bewegenden Roman festgehalten. Weit Gegangen ist ein Roman von Dave Eggers, und es ist die wahre Lebensgeschichte von Valentino Achak Deng. Die Geschichte eines Menschen, der bereits mit sieben Jahren auf der Flucht vor dem Bürgerkrieg in seiner Heimat erlebt, wie die Jungen, mit denen er flieht, von Soldaten erschossen und von Löwen gerissen werden oder qualvoll sterben, weil sie nach Tagen ohne Essen und Trinken in der Wüste halbgares Elefantenfleisch gegessen haben. Valentino und die »Lost Boys«, wie die sudanesischen Jungen auf der Flucht genannt werden, finden nach der Durchquerung Äthiopiens eine erste Zuflucht in den Flüchtlingslagern von Kenia. Von dort aus gelingt Valentino die Ausreise in die USA. Doch auch das Land der Freiheit und zahlreicher Verheißungen stellt Valentino vor unzählige neue Herausforderungen. Inzwischen leben etwa zwei Millionen sudanesische Flüchtlinge in den USA. Weit Gegangen erzählt am Beispiel eines außergewöhnlichen Menschen auch ihre Geschichte – eine Geschichte über Kampfgeist und Zuversicht in einer Welt ohne Hoffnung.

"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" (The New York Times Book Review). A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the unique, moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. In his distinctive style unlike any other memoir, Egger''s story is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive, as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme''s earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

A struggling American businessman travels to a rising Saudi Arabian city with the hopes of securing a contract that will earn him a commission large enough to stave off his economic woes and hold his family together.

The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 includes Daniel Alarcón, Clare Beams, Sloane Crosley, Anthony Doerr, Neil Gaiman, Mohammed Hanif, Mac McClelland, Michael Paterniti, Olivier Schrauwen, Gary Shteyngart, and others

How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical and soulful collection of stories from the acclaimed author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Ranging from a doomed Irish setter’s tales of running and jumping (“After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”) to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship (“Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance”), and from the Egyptian desert to the asphalt of Interstate 5, these stories are Eggers at his finest. By turns devastating, clear-eyed and funn – incredibly funny – this collection is a marvel.

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...

''Ik pak zijn hand en we gaan door het venster en vliegen over de snel geschetste bomen, en dan op naar Californië'' De absolute literaire sensatie van het vorige millennium was Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit van Dave Eggers: sensationele recensies (door twintig critici verkozen tot hét boek van het jaar 2000), spraakmakende optredens, grote verkoopaantallen én een hartverscheurend verhaal: het gaat over de tragische dood van Eggers'' ouders (die binnen vijf weken na elkaar aan kanker stierven toen hij eenentwintig jaar oud was) en de wijze waarop hij zijn dan achtjarige broertje Toph opvoedt. Hier is eindelijk weer een boek dat nu al de klassieker voor een hele generatie is. Het is, zoals HP/De Tijd reeds schreef, ''zowel een mis voor de doden als een toast op het leven''. Dave Eggers schreef zijn debuut Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit in 2000 en werd finalist voor de Pulitzer Prize. Vervolgens schreef hij o.a. Zeitoun, Wat is de Wat en Een hologram voor de koning (wordt verfilmd met Tom Hanks in de hoofdrol). In 2013 verscheen zijn bestseller De cirkel. Eggers is tevens de drijvende kracht achter McSweeney''s en 826 Valencia, en won in 2008 de Ted Prize.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak''s classic work, the bestselling author of The Circle “is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy’s mind and heart” (San Francisco Chronicle). 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.

An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) 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. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac''s book, Eggers''s could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly

Maurice Sendak′s classic book Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventures of Max, a headstrong young boy who leaves home after having a fight with his mother, only to find himself in a mysterious forest bordering a vast sea. Misunderstood and rebellious, Max sets sail to the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns. But how do you turn one of the world′s favorite children′s books into a movie? This film incorporates the most dynamic elements of voice performance, live-action puppetry, and computer animation into a live-action adventure story that captures the magic of the book-and takes it to a new dimension. In order to preserve the realistic nature of the film, the Wild Things are not created digitally. Instead, Spike Jonze brings these characters to life in the form of physical suits built by the Jim Henson Company. These creatures, operated by a suit performer, interact with the live actor playing Max on set in front of the camera. After principal photography is finished, CGI is being used to make the creatures completely lifelike and convincing. HEADS ON AND WE SHOOT unveils the unique collaboration behind this highly anticipated film-the combined work of Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and all the cast and crew. The book design is heavily image-based, a mix of early sketches, storyboards, character designs, and extensive behind-the-scenes photographs that show both incredible live-action puppetry and computer animation. The text includes forewords by Jonze and Eggers, interviews with the cast and crew, stories from on and off the set, and early drafts of the screenplay. The resulting book will be simultaneously a beautiful object for collectors, an insider′s guide for devotees, and an intimate window into the creative process.

Twee vrienden bereizen de wereld om hun rijkdom onder de armen te verdelen, iets dat moeilijker blijkt te zijn dan het lijkt.

Since its initial publication and multiple reprints in hardcover in 2005, Teachers Have It Easy has attracted the attention of teachers nationwide, appearing on the New York Times extended bestseller list, C-SPAN, and NPR''s Marketplace, in addition to receiving strong reviews nationwide. Now available for the first time in paperback, this groundbreaking book examines how bad policy makes teachers'' lives miserable. Many teachers today must work two or more jobs to survive; they cannot afford to buy homes or raise families. Interweaving teachers'' voices from across the country with hard-hitting facts and figures, this book is a clear-eyed view of the harsh realities of public school teaching, without chicken-soup-for-the-soul success stories. With a look at the problems of recruitment and retention, the myths of short workdays and endless summer vacations, the realities of the work week, and shocking examples of how society views America''s teachers, Teachers Have It Easy explores the best ways to improve public education and transform our schools.

Collection of American short stories.