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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, The Circle is the exhilarating novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of Heroes of the Frontier .

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world´s most powerful internet company, she feels she´s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users´ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company´s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can´t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world-even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman´s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

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Dave Eggers, geboren 1971, wuchs in der Nähe von Chicago auf und besuchte die Universität von Illinois. Er gründete 1998 einen Verlag, in dem er seine Bücher veröffentlicht, ein vierteljährliches Literaturmagazin und eine Monatszeitschrift. 2012 wurde Dave Eggers mit dem "Albatros", dem Preis der "Grass-Stiftung.
Eggers ist Gründer und Herausgeber von McSweeney´s, einem unabhängigen Verlag mit Sitz in San Francisco. 2002 rief er ein gemeinnütziges Schreib- und Förderzentrum für Jugendliche ins Leben, "826 Valencia", das heute Ableger in mehreren amerikanischen Städten hat. Eggers stammt aus Chicago und lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern in Nordkalifornien.

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