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From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.
An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state.
Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.
With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this timeless novel questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace.
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Dave Eggers es autor de numerosos libros, entre los que se encuentran Los ojos y lo imposible,
El círculo, El monje de Moca, Héroes de la frontera, Un holograma para el rey y Qué es el qué. Es fundador de la editorial independiente McSweeney's y cofundador de 826 Valencia, un centro de escritura para jóvenes que ha inspirado a más de 70 organizaciones similares en todo el mundo. Eggers ha ganado el American Book Award, el Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, el Dayton Literary Peace Prize y el TED Prize, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award, el Pulitzer y el National Book Critics Circle Award. Eggers es miembro de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Letras. En Impedimenta ha publicado junto a la ilustradora Júlia Sardà La milagrosa mudanza de la mansión mina de los Miller
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