Zeitoun - Brossura

FINALIST – The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest

"Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by Hurricane Katrina. . . . Eggers's tone is pitch-perfect."
— The New York Times Book Review

"Zeitoun is impeccably structured and bursting with empathy, but Eggers's real success is in how thoroughly he camouflages his own authorial voice. He writes in poignant, straight-ahead prose that never clutters or dresses up the subject matter. The resulting book is so evocative and user-friendly that it will appeal to readers of virtually all ages."
— The Georgia Straight

"A heartfelt book, so fierce in its fury, so beautiful in its richly nuanced, compassionate telling of an American tragedy, and finally, so sweetly, stubbornly hopeful."
— The Times-Picayune
 
“Gripping and moving.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
 
“I deeply admired the talent, ambition and courage it must have taken to write Zeitoun. . . . His writing is spare and precise, with respect for both the reader and the story, and underlying the narrative [is] a wonderful sense of outrage made all the more powerful because of how light his touch is.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of The Thing Around Your Neck
 
“Eggers . . . sensibly resists rhetorical grandstanding, letting injustices speak for themselves. His skill is most evident in how closely he involves the reader in Zeitoun’s thoughts.”
— The New Yorker
 
“The book serves as a damning indictment of governmental and judicial failings in the wake of Katrina—but beyond that, it recounts a wrenching, human story of family, faith and, ultimately, hope. Dave Eggers is an important writer with a big heart, as conscientious as he is prolific. Whatever he does next, and however he does it, his work matters, and people should be listening.”
— The Globe and Mail
 
“Brings the city in its immediate post-storm aftermath vividly to life. . . . No matter how much you’ve read and heard about what went on in New Orleans in the days and weeks following Katrina, much of what happens to Zeitoun will probably be new and shocking to you. . . . This book is a modern-day American epic that brings the complexity and ennobling dimensions of the best fiction to a real-life story that needed to be told.”
— The Gazette

DAVE EGGERS is the author of seven books, including A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What and The Wild Things as well as co-writer of the film Away We Go, starring Jon Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. He is the editor of McSweeney's, a quarterly magazine and book-publishing company, and is cofounder of 826 Valencia, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for young people. His interest in oral history led to his 2004 cofounding of Voice of Witness, a nonprofit series of books that use oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. As a journalist, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and The Believer.