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What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil wars\n\nValentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these . . .\n\nTruly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph.\n\n'If there was ever any doubt that Dave Eggers is one of our most important storytellers, What Is the What should put it to rest... [A] strange, beautiful and unforgettable work' San Francisco Chronicle\n\n'A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising' London Review of Books\n\nAll of the author's proceeds from this book will go to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation. Read more at: www.valentinoachakdeng.com.

What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil wars\n\nValentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these . . .\n\nTruly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph.\n\n'If there was ever any doubt that Dave Eggers is one of our most important storytellers, What Is the What should put it to rest... [A] strange, beautiful and unforgettable work' San Francisco Chronicle\n\n'A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising' London Review of Books\n\nAll of the author's proceeds from this book will go to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation. Read more at: www.valentinoachakdeng.com.

When Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega\n\nTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet\n\n'Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail\n\n'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times\n\n'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post\n\nWhen Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ...\n\n'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair\n\n'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro\n\n'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war\n\nMokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the U.S. embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.\n\nThe Monk of Mokha is the story of this courageous and visionary young man following the most American of dreams.\n\n'Extraordinary... No story is more urgent' Observer\n\n'Dramatic, aspirational smartly and engagingly written... Exactly what I want to read right now' The Times\n\n'The antidote to Trumpism... This is a book that celebrates [the] exuberance of the human spirit' Mail on Sunday\n\n'This book... is about the American dream, and the threat that it is under' Spectator\n\n'Remarkable... full of derring-do, tenacity and exceptional luck' Metro

Uno strepitoso romanzo senza tempo che pone domande fondamentali per il presente. Una storia dritta come la strada da stendere per unire due metà di un paese che esce dalla guerra civile.\r\n«Universale, geniale, appassionante» – London Evening Standard\r\n\r\n\r\nPer commemorare l'armistizio in un paese sconosciuto del Terzo mondo appena uscito dalla guerra, viene commissionata una nuova strada che connette le due metà dello stato fratturato. Sono incaricati del lavoro due uomini che vengono da un paese del Primo mondo, due contractor mercenari. Per ragioni di sicurezza, prima di iniziare, si sono dati degli pseudonimi numerici. Numero Quattro, quello incaricato di guidare l'avveniristica macchina asfaltatrice RS-90, si attiene a una disciplina monastica: devono fare una strada perfettamente dritta, lunga 260 chilometri, e i tempi sono stretti, il lavoro deve essere completato prima della parata celebrativa. Numero Nove, che in sella al suo quad si assicura che non ci siano ostacoli davanti e dietro, è invece in vena di avventure e curioso di ciò che lo circonda. Conosce la lingua locale, mangia le cose del posto invece di limitarsi ai frullati di proteine della razione, fa amicizia come può sulla strada e, in generale, fa di tutto per non attenersi al rigoroso protocollo previsto. Quattro capisce immediatamente che Nove è un \"agente del caos\", che rischia di compromettere il lavoro e che, peggio, rende più incerto il ritorno a casa. La grande protagonista de «La parata» è l'attesa. Quattro è a modo suo simile al nostro Giovanni Drogo del «Deserto dei Tartari» di Buzzati: la sua fortezza è la macchina asfaltatrice in cui passa le sue giornate e i suoi Tartari sono il collega Nove e la popolazione locale. Ma il romanzo è anche la storia di scontro vizioso fra i due protagonisti, fra Oriente e Occidente, e fra le due anime contrastanti di Quattro, quella scientifica e quella umana ed empatica. Stranieri in una terra straniera devastata dalla guerra, Quattro e Nove sono protagonisti di un'allegoria che vuole mostrare l'assurdità della loro posizione e le conseguenze della loro presenza.

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.\n\n'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute . . . An intensely gripping story' Evening Standard\n\nAn 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.\n\nTwo 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.\n\nWith 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.\n\n'Certainly his best book since What is the What... The sound of a major writer finding his mature voice' Spectator

When Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ...

From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war\n\nMokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the U.S. embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.\n\nThe Monk of Mokha is the story of this courageous and visionary young man following the most American of dreams.\n\n'Extraordinary... No story is more urgent' Observer\n\n'Dramatic, aspirational smartly and engagingly written... Exactly what I want to read right now' The Times\n\n'The antidote to Trumpism... This is a book that celebrates [the] exuberance of the human spirit' Mail on Sunday\n\n'This book... is about the American dream, and the threat that it is under' Spectator\n\n'Remarkable... full of derring-do, tenacity and exceptional luck' Metro

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega\n\nTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet\n\n'Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail\n\n'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times\n\n'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post\n\nWhen Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ...\n\n'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair\n\n'Immensely readable and very timely' Metro\n\n'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

Uno strepitoso romanzo senza tempo che pone domande fondamentali per il presente. Una storia dritta come la strada da stendere per unire due metà di un paese che esce dalla guerra civile.\r\n«Universale, geniale, appassionante» – London Evening Standard\r\n\r\n\r\nPer commemorare l'armistizio in un paese sconosciuto del Terzo mondo appena uscito dalla guerra, viene commissionata una nuova strada che connette le due metà dello stato fratturato. Sono incaricati del lavoro due uomini che vengono da un paese del Primo mondo, due contractor mercenari. Per ragioni di sicurezza, prima di iniziare, si sono dati degli pseudonimi numerici. Numero Quattro, quello incaricato di guidare l'avveniristica macchina asfaltatrice RS-90, si attiene a una disciplina monastica: devono fare una strada perfettamente dritta, lunga 260 chilometri, e i tempi sono stretti, il lavoro deve essere completato prima della parata celebrativa. Numero Nove, che in sella al suo quad si assicura che non ci siano ostacoli davanti e dietro, è invece in vena di avventure e curioso di ciò che lo circonda. Conosce la lingua locale, mangia le cose del posto invece di limitarsi ai frullati di proteine della razione, fa amicizia come può sulla strada e, in generale, fa di tutto per non attenersi al rigoroso protocollo previsto. Quattro capisce immediatamente che Nove è un \"agente del caos\", che rischia di compromettere il lavoro e che, peggio, rende più incerto il ritorno a casa. La grande protagonista de «La parata» è l'attesa. Quattro è a modo suo simile al nostro Giovanni Drogo del «Deserto dei Tartari» di Buzzati: la sua fortezza è la macchina asfaltatrice in cui passa le sue giornate e i suoi Tartari sono il collega Nove e la popolazione locale. Ma il romanzo è anche la storia di scontro vizioso fra i due protagonisti, fra Oriente e Occidente, e fra le due anime contrastanti di Quattro, quella scientifica e quella umana ed empatica. Stranieri in una terra straniera devastata dalla guerra, Quattro e Nove sono protagonisti di un'allegoria che vuole mostrare l'assurdità della loro posizione e le conseguenze della loro presenza.

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.\n\n'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute . . . An intensely gripping story' Evening Standard\n\nAn 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.\n\nTwo 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.\n\nWith 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.\n\n'Certainly his best book since What is the What... The sound of a major writer finding his mature voice' Spectator

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD AND THE LA TIMES BOOK AWARD\n\n'Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported' Guardian \n\nThe urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .\n\nIn August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded streets by canoe. But eventually he came to the attention of those 'guarding' this drowned city. Only then did Zeitoun's nightmare really begin.\n\nZeitoun is the powerful, ultimately uplifting true story of one man's courage when confronted with an awesome force of nature followed by more troubling human oppression.\n\n'Eggers uses Zeitoun's eyes to report on America's reasonless post-Katrina world, Reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's documentaries, this is a true story told with the skills of a master of fiction. Immensely readable' Independent\n\n'The stuff of great narrative non-fiction. Fifty years from now, when people want to know what happened to this once-great city, they will be talking about a family named Zeitoun' The New York Times Book Review

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic\n\nMax likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged.\n\nAfter a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign - the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility?\n\n'A life-affirming delight' GQ\n\n'Compelling, fantastical, engrossing' Shortlist\n\n'Let the wild rumpus start!' Grazia

Quando Mae Holland viene assunta per lavorare per il Cerchio, l'azienda più importante e potente al mondo, sa che è l'opportunità di una vita. Il Cerchio si occupa di intrecciare fra loro i dati provenienti dalle mail, le ricerche online, i contenuti dei social network, i conti bancari, in una società dove la trasparenza è sempre più una parola d'ordine, a discapito della privacy. Tutto del nuovo lavoro entusiasma Mae, non solo l'operatività all'avanguardia: gli uffici sono avveniristici, con palestre e piscine distribuite ai piani, una zona riposo con stanze sempre pronte per chi si trovasse a passare la notte al lavoro, un acquario con rarissimi pesci degli abissi, senza contare le feste organizzate e le gare sportive. Mae continua a considerarsi fortunata anche quando la vita al di fuori del Cerchio diventa un miraggio lontano, anche quando un misterioso collega cerca di farla riflettere su alcune operazioni poco chiare, anche quando prima il suo lavoro e poi il suo privato iniziano a diventare sempre più pubblici. Presto quella che sembrava la storia delle ambizioni di una giovane donna idealista diventa un intrigo carico di suspense, un'interrogazione a tutto campo sulle questioni della privacy, della democrazia e dei limiti per la conoscenza umana.

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD AND THE LA TIMES BOOK AWARD\n\n'Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported' Guardian \n\nThe urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .\n\nIn August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded streets by canoe. But eventually he came to the attention of those 'guarding' this drowned city. Only then did Zeitoun's nightmare really begin.\n\nZeitoun is the powerful, ultimately uplifting true story of one man's courage when confronted with an awesome force of nature followed by more troubling human oppression.\n\n'Eggers uses Zeitoun's eyes to report on America's reasonless post-Katrina world, Reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's documentaries, this is a true story told with the skills of a master of fiction. Immensely readable' Independent\n\n'The stuff of great narrative non-fiction. Fifty years from now, when people want to know what happened to this once-great city, they will be talking about a family named Zeitoun' The New York Times Book Review

Quando Mae Holland viene assunta per lavorare per il Cerchio, l'azienda più importante e potente al mondo, sa che è l'opportunità di una vita. Il Cerchio si occupa di intrecciare fra loro i dati provenienti dalle mail, le ricerche online, i contenuti dei social network, i conti bancari, in una società dove la trasparenza è sempre più una parola d'ordine, a discapito della privacy. Tutto del nuovo lavoro entusiasma Mae, non solo l'operatività all'avanguardia: gli uffici sono avveniristici, con palestre e piscine distribuite ai piani, una zona riposo con stanze sempre pronte per chi si trovasse a passare la notte al lavoro, un acquario con rarissimi pesci degli abissi, senza contare le feste organizzate e le gare sportive. Mae continua a considerarsi fortunata anche quando la vita al di fuori del Cerchio diventa un miraggio lontano, anche quando un misterioso collega cerca di farla riflettere su alcune operazioni poco chiare, anche quando prima il suo lavoro e poi il suo privato iniziano a diventare sempre più pubblici. Presto quella che sembrava la storia delle ambizioni di una giovane donna idealista diventa un intrigo carico di suspense, un'interrogazione a tutto campo sulle questioni della privacy, della democrazia e dei limiti per la conoscenza umana.

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic\n\nMax likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged.\n\nAfter a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign - the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility?\n\n'A life-affirming delight' GQ\n\n'Compelling, fantastical, engrossing' Shortlist\n\n'Let the wild rumpus start!' Grazia