![]() ![]() mean for a man trying to survive in the world today, (and so we return to the question of murder, rape and torture.). It's a "backstory" item, but Eggers returns to it again and again-the whole book's really a rumination on just what the heck went wrong, and what such failures of modernization/corporatization/globalization/etc. ![]() At the center of it all is a tale of the decline and dissolution of Schwinn Bicycles (yes!). I didn't expect to like the setting in Saudi Arabia-but Eggers skips the easy exoticisms and creates a world at once unlike anything I expected, yet totally recognizable. But each scene is drawn with purpose and originality. How? It's a very spare book-an "easy" listen. Yet here's a book that's been haunting me for months now, and it didn't contain a single scene of murder, rape or torture to do it. You hear people say, "(blank) novel haunted me." But dig a little deeper, and it's usually some writer's trick of outrageous violence (or some other offense against humanity) at the center of the sentiment. ![]()
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