The Circle: (Penguin Essentials)

Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
When Mae 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. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - 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 ...
'Tremendous. Inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail
'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian
'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times


About the Author :
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, Teachers Have It Easy, Surviving Justice, What is the What, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King, The Circle, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever? and Heroes of the Frontier. A Hologram for the King and The Circle are both currently in production for major film adaptations.
Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's independent publishing house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family.


Review :
Publisher's description. Fast, thrilling and compulsively addictive, The Circle is Dave Eggers' bestselling novel about our obsession with the internet and where it may lead. When Mae Holland lands her dream job at the world's most powerful internet company, she has no idea what awaits behind the doors of The Circle... A stunning work of terrifying plausability ... a worthy and entertaining read Eggers has set his style and pace to technothriller: the writing is brisk, spare and efficient ... it works Prescient, important and enjoyable ... a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world ... fast, witty and troubling An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century Immensley readable and very timely A gripping and highly unsettling read Unputdownable Eggers's writing is so fluent, his ventriloquism of tech-world dialect so light, his denouement so enjoyably inevitable Tremendous novel ... inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted Compelling and deeply contemporary Eggers brilliantly depicts the Internet binges, torrents of information and endless loops of feedback that increasingly characterize modern life I kept hooting in appalled recognition at his horribly plausible story of a society in which social media becomes totalitarian A story that will come back to haunt you every time you log on to social media