Dave Eggers (20 kníh)
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Dave Eggers A Hologram for the King ENIn 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 A 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…
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Dave Eggers A Hologram for the King ENIn 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 A 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…
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John Berendt, Dave Eggers An Innocent Abroad ENMore than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an…
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Dave Eggers Better Than Fiction 2 ENFrom Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012's Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world's best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler. Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion…
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Dave Eggers Heroes Of the FrontierFrom the bestselling author of The Circle, a hilarious and heart-warming misadventure through modern America: it's time for the family vacation...Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and a...
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Dave Eggers Heroes Of the FrontierNEW YORK TIMES #8 BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a brilliant new black comedy about modern America A mother and her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the 'Chateau') and embark upon a...
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Dave Eggers Hologram pre kráľaNovinka výnimočného amerického spisovateľa! Jeden z najvplyvnejších amerických autorov súčasnosti prináša vtipný a zároveň napínavý príbeh rozvedeného päťdesiatnika, ktorého podnik skrachoval v dôsledku americkej ekonomickej krízy. Z dlhov sa chce vyhrabať vďaka lukratívnej zákazke v prosperujúcej a peniazmi rozprávkovo oplývajúcej Saudskej Arábii. Čo všetko sa môže stať počas nekonečného čakania na arabského kráľa?
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Dave Eggers Hologram pro krále CZPříběh o nesnázích muže středního věku, kterého zasáhla jak osobní, tak ekonomická krize, ale on se jí rozhodne čelit. Co všechno se může stát během nekonečného čekání na arabského krále? Náš svět se mění a každý se v něm musí znovu najít.
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Dave Eggers Kruh CZMae Hollandová získala práci v Circlu, nejsilnější internetové společnosti na světě, a nemůže uvěřit svému štěstí. Otevřely se jí tím nejen dveře do světa milých a pracovitých lidí, ale i sportovních klubů, skvělých restaurací a luxusu. Zaměstnanci Circlu používají nejmodernější technické vymoženosti, nosí nejkvalitnější oblečení, stojí u zrodu nových trendů a dokážou svými nápady a oddaností obrátit běh světových…
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Dave Eggers Srdceryvné dílo ohromujícího génia CZUpřímně, bez patosu a s neodolatelným a zcela originálním humorem se mladý americký spisovatel Dave Eggers, objev roku, ve své autobiografické prvotině z roku 1999 vypořádává se smrtí obou rodičů, když mu bylo jednadvacet a on se musel začít starat o svého osmiletého bratra. To jeho „srdceryvné dílo” je záznam hledání vlastního místa v postmoderním světě, kde je „hrozně těžké být otevřený a velkomyslný a vstřícný…
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Dave Eggers The Circle ENFast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 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…
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Dave Eggers The Circle ENWhen Mae Holland 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. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan…
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Dave Eggers The Circle ENWhen 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…
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Dave Eggers The LiftersDiscover a stunning new children's tale from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of Heroes of the Frontier and What Is the What. When things fall down, who lifts them up? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth ...
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Dave Eggers The Monk of MokhaFrom 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. Mokhtar 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…
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Dave Eggers The Monk of MokhaFrom 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...
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Dave Eggers The ParadeAn 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...
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Dave Eggers The Story of Captain Nemo ENDon't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it. In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo - the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York to hunt down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorizing the oceans, wrecking ship after ship and causing countless…
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Dave Eggers What is the WhatValentino 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…
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