Die parade by dave eggers. The us authors latest novel is a lean parable about war and its aftermath. It is a novel of ideas that packs an emotional punch that left me reeling. He first gained widespread. Designed to connect the urban north and rural south of an unnamed recently.
The parade by dave eggers is published by hamish hamilton 1499. The parade the latest compelling tale from dave eggers is a short book but not at the expense of anything it needs to function as a taut direct and lean narrative. A plan to lay down a roadway runs into a few barriers in this parable of friendship and politics. With clear unadorned prose eggers lays bare the costs of war and of peace tayari jones author of an american marriage this is a tale for our time an allegory about intervening in foreign lands without knowledge and so a nightmare vision of our.
The pared down style and global themes that eggers has embraced since a hologram for the king 2012he may be the only living american writer for whom the term hemingway esque meaningfully applieshave restricted him to writing two kinds of novels. 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. The parade by dave eggers. The two workers building this road are western employees of a large wealthy company and are known to each other only by numbers they have assigned themselves.
The parade by dave eggers review a fable with a twist two men with a road to build. He wrote the best selling memoir a heartbreaking work of staggering geniuseggers is also the founder of mcsweeneys a literary journal a co founder of the literacy project 826 valencia and the human rights nonprofit voice of witness and the. Free uk pp over 15 online orders only. He is married to writer vendela vida with whom he has two children.
Dave eggers born march 12 1970 is an american writer editor and publisher. Praise the parade is a heartbreaker and a mindbender. The central image in dave eggerss latest novel the parade is a gleaming road in the process of completion. The parade is a taut suspenseful story of two foreigners role in a nations fragile peace.