Together

Dave Eggers' new novel is a sequel to his bestseller "The Circle," painting a picture of a completely transparent future world that has abandoned the right to privacy in the name of unobstructed information exchange. Several years have passed, "The... Circle," having merged with a well-known giant of e-commerce, is now called "Together" and has become the richest, most dangerous, and most powerful monopoly in the world, led by none other than the heroine of "The Circle," Mae Holland. Fearing that the control systems, presented as necessary elements of a stable and secure world - but actually provoking endless neurosis and depriving people of the ability to make decisions independently - will completely destroy free will, Delaney Wells decides to infiltrate the corporation and dismantle it from within. Penetrating to the heart of the company, she begins to propose one terrifying idea after another in the hope that sooner or later society will rise up against the "digital concentration camp." Surveillance of all by all, the complete dependency of people on the most absurd rules established by the corporation, universal censorship and self-censorship, the removal of undesirable books - this new world might have seemed like a literary dystopia just five years ago, but now we live in it. And in this new wonderful world, most are content and happy. Dave Eggers has written a new version of Orwell's "1984," in which humanity finds happiness based on totalitarianism, intertwined with digital technologies.