Alan decides to stay on in Saudi Arabia, to attempt to convince the King to use Reliant in some other way. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment and a moving story of how we got here. Alan's presentation to the King goes well, but Reliant does not get the IT job. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds. Zahra Hakem, and the two begin a tentative, though short-lived, romance as Zahra goes to Paris on business.
Alan also has a a cyst on his back removed by Dr. Yousef invites Alan up to his father's house in the mountains, where Alan is involved in a hunting accident which almost kills a young shepherd.
While there, waiting for the king for more than three weeks, Alan meets a local named Yousef, and the two become friends. Alan travels with a team to make the presentation. Alan is desperately seeking to get the job, because he is in debt by more than $100,000, and his daughter is in desperate need of college funds. Alan is assigned the presentation job because he knows the King's nephew. A Hologram for the King is a novel by Dave Eggers that involves the attempts of American businessman Alan Clay to stabilize his finances, find happiness in life, and ensure his daughter has funds to continue her college education.Īlan works for Reliant Systems, a communications company, that has a hologram projection system it wants to present to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, in the hopes that it will get the job of installing IT at the new King Abdullah Economic City.
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