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Gebundene Ausgabe: 352 Seiten
Verlag: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (27. Februar 2003)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0241142288
ISBN-13: 978-0241142288
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 13,8 x 2,4 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.530.217 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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You Shall Know Our Velocity is the first novel from Dave Eggers, author of the bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Although this is a work of fiction, its themes, preoccupations, and even its pair of central characters will feel strikingly familiar to readers of his unorthodox autobiography. Where A Heartbreaking Work… charted, among many, many other things, the death of Eggers' parents, this book's narrator, Will Chmielewski, is mourning the loss of his childhood friend, Jack. In the wake of Jack's death, Will, who came into $80,000 dollars after his silhouette was used as a logo on a lightbulb, embarks on a trip around the world with another old friend, Hand. They will not only make their wayward circumnavigation in a week--"we'd see what we could see in six, six and half days, and then go home"--but they'll also dispose of Will's lightbulb money along the way.

Flying from Chicago, these twenty-something, philanthropic Phileas Foggs (Generation Y's Bob and Bing, in fact) hope to start their odyssey in Greenland and finish on the top of Cheops pyramid in Egypt. Of course bad weather, visa regulations, the intransigence of airline authorities and "the unmitigated slowness of moving from place to place" consistently thwart their plans. ("Should we not have teleporting by now?" an exasperated Will asks at one point.) Journeying to Senegal through Morocco and onto Estonia and Latvia, the hapless duo devise increasingly bizarre means to, arbitrarily, hand money to needy locals. They try to pin wads of notes onto goats, over-tip pole dancers, hire cabs for minute distances and create a "real treasure" hunt, replete with map.

There is a curious unreality about how Will and Hand interact with the people they meet. Like Eggers and his younger brother Toph in A Heartbreaking Work, they've retreated into a kind of male adolescent fantasy bubble where the world is a largely a game for their own amusement. The idea of rich yanks dolling out cash willy nilly is, as Eggers is well aware, itself slightly tasteless. The narrative is however, almost mercilessly, metacritical--Will's every worry, doubt, and guilty reflection is taken to its nth degree. Eggers' self-ironising style is as infuriating and as beguiling as ever, but this is a far less tricksy book than his memoir. There are fewer typographical gimmicks and, while it would be impossible ever to describe Eggers' prose as restrained, his writing is less ostentatious here and for that reason all the more impressive. It's simply a quite startling and occasionally tender piece of work, buzzing with annoyingly magnificent sentences, ideas and jokes. --Travis Elborough

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Will and Hand, two young Americans, decide to travel around the world handing over large amounts of money to those who need it. This trip will, they hope, be an answer to the overwhelming grief they feel after their friend's death. But, as they soon find out, nothing is quite so simple. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Junge amerikanische Literatur at its best 4. September 2003

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Nach dem autobiograpischen "Herzzerreißenden Werk von unglaublicher Genialität" nun der erste Roman von Eggers. Und anders als etwa Nick McDonel ist Egger nicht der "King of Cool", sondern eine höchst orginelle, junge Stimme in der amerikanischen Literatur, ständig auf der Suche.
Man könnte den Roman als Roadnovel, als eine Suche nach Menschlichkeit und dem Sinn der Trauer beschreiben.
Zwei Freunde beschließen nach dem Tod ihres besten Freundes eine einwöchige Weltreise zu unternehmen auf der hauptsächlich Geld verschenkt werden soll, an das Will (der Ich-Erzähler) unverhofft gekommen ist.
Eggers spinnt mehrere Erzählebenen kunstvoll ineinander, baut Rückblenden ein und setzt gleich zu Anfang noch eine Botschaft aus dem Jenseits.
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Inspiring, Gripping, Melancholy - A novel you will always remember 26. September 2010

Von Bryan B. - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers is a wholly brilliant work of fiction. The concept itself is ingenius; two friends travel around the globe (not quite fully around as planned) to give away roughly $32,000 to people who need it. How he comes into the money, I'll leave that for the readers. Some of the ways they distribute the money are pretty entertaining, like trying to tape a wad of cash to a goat (obviously wanting the owner to find it) with a note that says "Here I Am - Rock You Like a Hurricane", just pure reading entertainment. The trip doesn't quite go as planned, they cannot hit all the destinations they want (mainly Cairo) and have some trouble because they can't enter countries which require visas, but the journey and the events are incredible- The writing is truly a joy to read. There is also more to this book than I've described, it really is filled with melancholy undertones that will move you. Will and Hand are the two friends who take the journey, the real purpose of the trip is for them to escape, to just get away for a week- because their other best friend has died six months prior- they often reminisce about their friend Jack and his life, Will is really tortured by the loss of Jack and this continuously resurfaces. The story is very touching, and at the same time hilarious in spots, definitely not one to miss out on. This is one of the best novels I've read in a long time, and I read everything.

Great Novel 8. Mai 2008

Von C. Bernardo - Ver�ffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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You Shall Know Our Velocity is a story about humanity more than it is a story about the world. Readers quickly get to know and relate to the characters, even before knowing their stories. Written with Egger's wonderfully fluid way of weaving a story and a person together. Incredibly enjoyable to read and travel through.

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