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

One of our fiercest and most compelling writers

Sunday Times

Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation

Independent

A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing is compelling and the characterization astute

Booklist

Inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we're in. Eggers pulls no punches

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A one-sitting read . . . insightful

USA Today

One of the country's leading literary eminences

Washington Post

Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society.

HERALD

His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to new lengths...compelling

EVENING STANDARD

But with each tightly controlled book, Eggers' fiction becomes more prescient, moving and unsettling... Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?

INDEPENDENT

The faint echo of Plato's dialogues . . . Raising questions about the appropriate relationship between authority and compassion.

Kirkus

An angry and astute investigation into the state of America ... Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola.

Mark Lawson, Guardian

Eggers has a knack for potent images of frustration . . [He] has produced something timely

Sam Worley, Chicago Tribune

A major talent. His voice - loud, sardonic, compassionate, and honest . . . Eggers has developed into a profoundly serious novelist and nonfiction writer with a social and political conscience.

Alex Gilvarry, The Boston Globe

Dave Eggers never writes the same book twice, and his latest may be his most unusual to date . . . [A] fleet and forceful story by one of our finest fiction writers . . .stark exchanges, with little exposition ... propels the reader to the end.

Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News

Unmistakably the work of a singular talent. . . Even if all generations are lost generations, we need engaged, incendiary novels which ask: What now?

Max Liu, The Independent

Fathers is a screaming, bleating cry for society to fix itself. It is a frothing, angry, mournful meditation on what is slipping away as America plows on into the 21st century... compelling

Henry C. Jackson, Chicago Daily Herald

Another startling leap into new territory . . . Here is a tale as tightly wound as an alarm clock. . . Eggers has always been as elastic writer, but in Your Fathers he puts his language to the ultimate test.

John Freeman, Toronto Star

This short, provocative novel feels a bit like Jack Bauer stepping into Kierkegaard's collected works. . . ambitiously confronts a grand history of philosophical angst . . . Swift and smart.

Zoë Ferraris, San Francisco Chronicle

Engaging . . . You know what Eggers wants to say, he says it quickly, and he says it with a respectably righteous fury. And, ultimately, he says it with a compassion that's always been present in his work . . . Fascinating.

Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post

Within 212 pages, Eggers displays a delicate, haunting, sometimes dire picture of the world. It may not be a comfortable read, but it's an interesting take on what we believe to be true and what we hope to be true.

Mark Lopez, Alibi.com