InA Hologram for the King,Dave Eggerstakes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds."Absorbing... modest and equally satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times."-Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesIn a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.  This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here."Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. [Hologram] is a strike against the current state of global economic in justice."-Elissa Schappel, VanityFair.com