Your Fathers, Where Are They And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever
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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is Dave Eggers’s 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.

Judges’ comments

A very confused guy compulsively kidnaps a number of people and locks them up in an abandoned military base. What he wants is easy: to talk with them. What he expects is impossible: the answers to his existential crisis. It seems like a radical exercise of dark comedy, but it’s much more than that, because the particular crisis of this loony is, in many ways, the crisis of our time. Who stole our dreams? Is there someone we can blame it on? A disturbing enquiry on the sources of frustration and violence in our world. A very risky, ambiguous and tremendously necessary book. Maybe you will hate it, but even in that case, you should read it.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Dave
Eggers

Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, Teachers Have It Easy, Surviving Justice, What is the What, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King, The Circle and Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?. A Hologram for the King and The Circle are both major film adaptations.

Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s independent publishing house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family.

Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, Teachers Have It Easy, Surviving Justice, What is the What, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King, The Circle and Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?. A Hologram for the King and The Circle are both major film adaptations.

Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s independent publishing house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family.

 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
07/05/2015
Author
Publisher
Penguin

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