Summary
From the best-selling author of The Circle, a powerful modern fable on the legacy of colonialism, the dark power of global corporations, and the challenge of truly ‘doing good’.
Two Western men are sent to work far away from home, tasked with paving a road the length of a country. The country is dangerous and largely lawless, only just recovering from a devastating civil war, and the road will unite north and south. The road is Progress. The road is Hope. And, when it is comp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241986271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241986273 |
| Author: | Dave Eggers |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute… An intensely gripping story
Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute… An intensely gripping story * Evening Standard *
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 *
A parable of progress, as told by J.M. Coetzee to Philip K. Dick – Richard Flanagan
The Parade is a heartbreaker and a mindbender. It is a novel of ideas that packs an emotional punch that left me reeling. With clear, unadorned prose, Eggers lays bare the costs of war, and of peace – Tayari Jones
A readable, atmospheric book * The Times *
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
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
Wide-ranging and thoughtful engagement with concepts of power and inequality and whether Western notions of what constitutes ‘progress’ are always right * Literary Review *
It partakes of a complex of anxieties about America’s role as an affluent superpower of dubious virtue * Financial Times *
Egger’s commitment to social and political issues continues * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Dave Eggers
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.
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