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by Dave Eggers
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, March of 2019 ‧
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From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners'' role in a nation''s fragile peace.

''Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute . . . An intensely gripping story'' Evening Standard

An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state.

Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.

With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this timeless novel questions whether we can ever understand another nation''s war, and what role we have in forging anyone''s peace.

''Certainly his best book since What is the What, The Parade may well be the sound of a major writer finding his mature voice'' Spectator

Parade

by Dave Eggers

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241986288
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: March of 2019
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Africa
EAN: 9780241986288
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers was born in Boston in 1970 into a family with four siblings. After the death of his parents in 1991, he moved with his younger brother, of whom he became legal guardian, to California, where he attended Berkeley. An award-winning writer, Eggers has also received several distinctions for his work with communities, notably for his work in Valencia - a non-profit educational project that promotes the linguistic and literary skills of young people aged six to eighteen -; and, more recently, for denouncing the failure of the American administration in the aftermath of Katrina, through his involvement in the Zeitoun case and subsequent account in a book (Quetzal, 2010). Dave Eggers is the founder of the independent record label McSweeney's. He lives with his wife - the writer Vandela Vida - and their two children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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