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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world.In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and…mehr

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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world.In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn't answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions.
Autorenporträt
Dave Eggers, geboren 1971, wuchs in der Nähe von Chicago auf und besuchte die Universität von Illinois. Er gründete 1998 einen Verlag, in dem er seine Bücher veröffentlicht, ein vierteljährliches Literaturmagazin und eine Monatszeitschrift. 2012 wurde Dave Eggers mit dem "Albatros", dem Preis der "Grass-Stiftung.
Eggers ist Gründer und Herausgeber von McSweeney's, einem unabhängigen Verlag mit Sitz in San Francisco. 2002 rief er ein gemeinnütziges Schreib- und Förderzentrum für Jugendliche ins Leben, "826 Valencia", das heute Ableger in mehreren amerikanischen Städten hat. Eggers stammt aus Chicago und lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern in Nordkalifornien.
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'Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page ... dazzling and highly original' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Time