A Hologram for the King

By Dave Eggers

Categories: Literature & Fiction

A Hologram for the King is Dave Eggers's novel about an American businessman waiting in the Saudi Arabian desert for a meeting that may never happen. Alan Clay, a struggling consultant in debt and separated from his wife, travels to a planned city on the Red Sea to pitch a holographic teleconferencing system to King Abdullah. As days pass without the king, Alan reflects on his career, his family and the decline of American manufacturing.

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• Tom Hanks: “Read these: A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. Dave Eggars & I REMEMBER NOTHING. Nora Ephron. You will remember both.”