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Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney's also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible. He lives in Northern California with his family. www.mcsweeneys.net www.voiceofwitness.org www.826national.org www.scholarmatch.org www.valentinoachakdeng.org
Egger's commitment to social and political issues continues * Mail on Sunday * It partakes of a complex of anxieties about America's role as an affluent superpower of dubious virtue * Financial Times * Wide-ranging and thoughtful engagement with concepts of power and inequality and whether Western notions of what constitutes 'progress' are always right * Literary Review * In The Parade, the anxiety grows with every page and every mile to reach an ending that turns everything upside down and sends us into the heart of darkness. A minimalistic, merciless novel. A powerful allegory and a painfully concrete contemporary story-Eggers is a true virtuoso of that synthesis. -- Georgi Gospodinov This is a tale for our time, an allegory about intervening in foreign lands without knowledge, and so a nightmare vision of our endless wars. -- Thomas E. Ricks A readable, atmospheric book * The Times * 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 * Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute... An intensely gripping story * Evening Standard *
