A Hologram for the King: A Novel [Paperback]

A Hologram for the Kingtakes 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. 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. 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 National Book Award Finalist
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
One of the Best Books of the Year from The Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle“A Hologram for the Kingis an outstanding achievement in Eggers’s already impressive career, and an essential read.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] clear, supremely readable parable of America in the global economy that is haunting, beautifully shaped, and sad. . . . A story human enough to draw blood…. Groundbreaking.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Completely engrossing. . . . Perfect.” —Fortune
 
Dave Eggers is a prince among men. . . . A strike against the current state of global economic injustice. —Vanity Fair
 
“A fascinating novel.” —The New Yorker
 
“Eerie, suspenseful and tightly controlled.” —The Globe and Mail
 
“A comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times.” —The New York Times
 
“Eggers’s most fully-realized character to date. . . . True genius.” —Boston Globe
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