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The Parade
Dave Eggers
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Description for The Parade
Paperback.
From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.
'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and astute . . . An intensely gripping story' Evening Standard
An 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. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241986271
SKU
9780241986271
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99-5
About Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney's ... Read more
Reviews for The Parade
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more