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Zeitoun
  • Published: 28 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141046815
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $30.00
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Zeitoun

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An urgent, timely and unforgettable true story of the horrors of post-Katrina New Orleans

In August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded streets by canoe. He protected neighbours' properties, fed trapped dogs and rescued survivors. But eventually he came to the attention of those 'guarding' this drowned city. Only then did Zeitoun's nightmare really begin.

Zeitoun is the powerful, ultimately uplifting true story of one man's courage when confronted with an awesome force of nature followed by more troubling human oppression.
  • Published: 28 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141046815
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Dave Eggers

DAVE EGGERS is the author of The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain, among other books. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Art + Water, a nonprofit visual art hub on San Francisco’s waterfront. A classically trained artist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award. In 2024, The Eyes and the Impossible was awarded the Newbery Medal.


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Praise for Zeitoun

Eggers uses Zeitoun's eyes to report on America's reasonless post-Katrina world. Reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's documentaries, this is a true story told with the skills of a master of fiction. Immensely readable

Independent

Masterly. Brilliantly crafted, powerfully written and deftly reported

Guardian

The shocking tale of a true New Orleans hero. This is narrative non-fiction at its very, very best

Herald

Shocking

The Times

Extraordinary, gripping

Daily Telegraph

Terrifying

Observer

Riveting

Vanity Fair