{"product_id":"hologram-for-the-king","title":"Hologram For The King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist\u003ci\u003e A Hologram for the King.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eA Hologram for the King\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e A\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHologram for the King\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Absorbing . . . modest and equally satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting tale about one man''s travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times''  Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A fascinating novel''  \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A spare but moving elegy for the American century''  \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Eggers understands the pressures of American downward-mobility, and in the protagonist of his novel, Alan Clay, has created an Everyman, a post-modern Willy Loman . . . The novel operates on a grand and global scale, but it also is intimate''  \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Completely engrossing''  \u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes''  \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDave Eggers is the author of six previous books: \u003ci\u003eA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow We Are Hungry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZeitoun. Zeitoun\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and \u003ci\u003eWhat is the What\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France''s \u003ci\u003ePrix Médicis.\u003c\/i\u003e Eggers is the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney''s\u003c\/i\u003e, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57512577302910,"sku":"NW9780241145869","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241145869.jpg?v=1780610489","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/hologram-for-the-king","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}