After his previous novel Zeitoun, also novelist Dave Eggers is finding sanctuary in the Gulf, almost like his protagonist in A Hologram for the King. (US edition McSweeney’s June 19, 2012, UK edition 5th of July 2012 McSweeney’s).
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Publication Date: 5 July 2012
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.
The Dutch edition is out a week before on the 28th of June 2012, as Een hologram voor de koning.
(Lebowski publishers)
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Posted on: Friday, June 29th, 2012