Astronaut food in dialogue form

Dave Eggers wrote a daring novel. Not dared because of its content or its statements - with controversial popular topics he finally looks at love and experienced - but because of its structure: "Your Fathers ..." is only written as a dialogue. This is not for everyone, and accordingly restrained the uptake so far appears to be well.

It peels off and only very gradually out what is at stake. I do not want to reveal too much - Eggers certainly offers some surprises - but what a little puzzling begins that a man wakes up chained to an abandoned military base on a pillar with his kidnappers beside him, evolving into a clever choreographed question and answer game in which Thomas, the kidnappers, trying to figure out why his life is so completely botched and who was responsible, either personally or as a representative of a system that deprives people of their future and too fast those sacrifices which for any reason Whatever stand on the sidelines.

The compact, freed of all ballast dialogue form allows Eggers to respond to relatively few pages a variety of miseries, from Thomas own, sad youth with an incompetent, but brimming with self-righteousness mother, over the question of why always sufficient money available for wars is when it otherwise clamped to every nook and corner, through to excessive force, even then accesses the American police with fondness when de-escalate the much more appropriate means would be - and that's not all. It is interesting to see how Eggers the Prosecutor Thomas always gives better argumentative end of the hand, at the same time but dismantled him as a personality piece by piece - it is so relatively soon realized that not much can be wrong with someone who abductions holds for the right way to go the open questions of his life and his country to the bottom.

Overall, however, one has the feeling that Eggers wanted brace in his short novel about a sick country a few problems too much. He works in parts very synthetic, highly compressed, like a wild together composed menu of different tubes astronaut food. And all the time, one wonders how it will succeed Eggers, dissolve the bizarre situation that he has come up there, and it is actually still really exciting to but then to dissipate fairly unspectacular. Since Thomas would 'campaign deserves a more appropriate finale.