The Circle
is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A
Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.
When Mae
Holland 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. The Circle,
run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social
media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting
in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours
the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy
dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s
modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there
are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and
clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the
Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to
work for the most influential company in the world—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. What begins
as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a
heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history,
privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
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