Dave Eggers Boeken

'Wat is de Wat' is een fictionele autobiografie geschreven vanuit het perspectief van Valention Achak Deng, een jongen die vluchteling wordt in het door oorlog verscheurde Zuid-Soedan. Zijn reis, te voet, samen met honderden andere 'lost boys' is er een van bijna bijbelse proporties: het brengt hem in contact met vijandelijke soldaten, rebellen, hyena's een leeuwen, ziekte en hongersnood, en de dodelijke murahaleen - dezelfde milities die op dit moment Darfur teisteren. Valentino verblijft in vluchtelingenkampen, weet niets over het lot van zijn ouders en andere familieleden, verliest tijdens zijn vlucht vele vrienden en kan op de dag van zijn vertrek naar Amerika niet vliegen: het is 11 september 2001.... Voor hen die denken alles te weten over de oorlog in Soedan is dit boek een eye opener, en voor hen die denken het werk van Dave Eggers te kennen, is dit boek een totale ommezwaai: het is een rechttoe rechtaan geschreven, compromisloos, humoristisch en avontuurlijk boek over de waanzin van de oorlog. Eggers heeft vier jaar aan deze roman gewerkt en was gedurende die tijd diep betrokken bij de gemeenschap van gevluchtte Soedanezen in de VS. In 2003 reisde hij met Valentino Achak Deng af naar Zuid-Soedan, waar Deng werd herenigd met zijn familie, die hij zeventien jaar niet had gezien. 'Wat is de Wat' is een epische roman over de burgeroorlog in Soedan, gezien door de ogen van een jongen. Het biedt een onthullend en ontluisterend portret van een land in staat van bloederige oorlog, en van een jongen die van de ene in de andere onwerkelijke situatie wordt gekatapulteerd. 'Wat is de Wat' is spraakmakend, opwindend en herhaaldelijk hartverscheurend - een onmisbaar boek.

Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.

McSweeney's Issue 4 is a box containing 14 booklets. The booklets feature fiction and nonfiction, from Denis Johnson, Haruki Murakami, Sheila Heti, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Rachel Cohen, Lawrence Weschler, Rick Moody, Lydia Davis, and many others. The first of many experiments in book and magazine packaging, McSweeney's Issue 4 marks a departure from the simpler paperback mold of the first three issues. For this issue, authors chose the art and design of their booklet. So, for example, Denis Johnson chose to use his son Matt's doodle for the cover of his three-act play "Hellhound On My Trail." George Saunders gave us a photo he took years ago, in Russia, for the cover of his "Four Institutional Monologues." And we took all of these booklets, and fit them in a box with a wood-footed bird adorned on the top. (For those asking Why?, there is also a booklet devoted to answering that question, written by editor Dave Eggers.) This rare issue, virtually out of print since it was first published, is now lovingly remade with a sturdier, more archive-worthy box and the same wondrous collection of prose.

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification- found themselves imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. These narrators include: Paul Terry, who spent twenty-seven years wrongfully imprisoned, and emerged psychologically devastated and barely able to communicate. Beverly Monroe, an organic chemist who was coerced into falsely confessing to the murder of her lover. Free after seven years, she faces the daunting task of rebuilding her life from the ground up. Joseph Amrine, who was sentenced to death for murder. Seventeen years later, when DNA evidence exonerated him, Amrine emerged from prison with nothing but the fourteen dollars in his inmate account.

NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enthralling novel for all ages by award-winning author Dave Eggers, told from the perspective of one uniquely endearing dog— featuring beautiful color artwork with illustrations by Caldecott honoree Shawn Harris. “Johannes is a highly engaging narrator whose exuberance and good nature run like a bright thread through the novel’s pages.” —The New York Times Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance. But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world. A story about friendship, beauty, liberation, and running very, very fast, The Eyes & the Impossible will make readers of all ages see the world around them in a wholly new way.

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss . . . 'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight, and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure . . . sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration . . . Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood, GUARDIAN

Ausstellung im Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 28.02. - 03.06.2007 Die Ausstellung gibt mit 23 großformatigen Fotografien einen Überblick über Thomas Demands aktuelle Arbeiten. Außerdem werden ein Filmprojekt und eine speziell für das Museum erarbeitete Architekturinstallation gezeigt. Das zentrales Thema sind Treppen, Leitern und Lifte. Der Titel verweist auch auf den so genannten Treppenwitz, der einem erst auf der Treppe einfällt – wenn es zu spät ist. In einem ironischen Bezug zum Titel steht auch eine neue Arbeit mit dem Titel Landing, die die Scherben zerbrochener Qing- Vasen auf einem Treppenabsatz zeigt, verursacht durch einen Besucher des Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, der über seine Schnürsenkel gestolpert war.

You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this picture book's narrator asks the reader to consider the splendor of glowing lights cast by ships on a shimmering waterway. Meet a trawler, a steamship, a RoRo, an exploratory vessel and more across richly illustrated pages, alive with the glowy, otherworldly nighttime scenes of boats as seen from a child's perspective.

Oisâin Mahoney, a 70-year-old American Army veteran, embarks on a journey with his young grand-nieces and grand-nephews towards the mysterious Museum of Rain in California's Central Coast. As they walk into the sunset, the story unfolds as a poignant exploration of family bonds, the nature of memory, and the legacies we create. Eggers crafts an elegiac narrative that reflects on the significance of what we leave behind, blending nostalgia with the uncertainty of the destination.