A Hologram for the King [Hardcover]

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. InA 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.

A National Book Award Finalist,A Northern California Book Award Finalist

One of theNew York Times Book Review's Top Ten Books of 2012

“Mr. Eggers uses a new, pared down, Hemingwayesque voice to recount his story... he demonstrates inHologramthat he is master of this more old-fashioned approach as much as he was a pioneering innovator withA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius....[This] sad-funny-dreamlike story unfolds to become an allegory about the frustrations of middle-class America, about the woes unemployed workers and sidelined entrepreneurs have experienced in a newly globalized world in which jobs are being outsourced abroad.... A comic but deeply affecting tale about one man’s travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times.”
—Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times

A spare but moving elegy for the American century.”—Publishers Weekly

Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes.”—Carolyn Kellogg,The Los Angeles Times

“A potent, well-drawn portrait of one man’s discovery of where his personal and professional selves split and connect.”—Kirkus Reviews

“An extraordinary work of timely and provocative themes...This novel reminds us that above all, Eggers is a writer lC0