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ZEITOUN.
por Eggers, Dave
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Very near fine in illustrated boards.
- ISBN 10
- 1934781630
- ISBN 13
- 9781934781630
- Livreiro
-
Ione, California, United States
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San Francisco:: McSweeney's , (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated boards. . First printing. The story of one man's experiences after Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in New Orleans and protect his property while his wife (born in Louisiana and a convert to Islam) and children leave for safety. After the levees break, he uses a small canoe to assist other stranded residents, before being arrested at one of his rental properties along with three other men by an armed squad. They were swept into a vortex of bureaucratic brutality and imprisoned as suspected terrorists; for a long time all his family knew was that he had "disappeared." Highly praised at the time of its publication, this received the American Book Award. A few years later, his wife filed for divorce and he was arrested and indicted not only for extremely violent abuse but for allegedly conspiring to have his ex-wife murdered. He was acquitted of the murder-related charges which came from a "non-credible" source, but convicted of abuse, and for some this cast doubt on the entire story - although itis undeniable that the government's response to Katrina was not only inadequate but focused more on protecting property than on saving lives. At the end of the book, Eggers portrays them as broken but hopeful - unfortunately, they were not only broken but destroyed. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp plus ads.
Sinopse
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including You Shall Know Our Velocity , winner of the Independent Book Award, and What Is the What , a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces books, an eponymous quarterly journal, a monthly magazine ( The Believer ), and Wholphin , a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California–Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
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- Livreiro
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 87181
- Título
- ZEITOUN.
- Autor
- Eggers, Dave
- Formato/Encadernação
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very near fine in illustrated boards.
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1934781630
- ISBN 13
- 9781934781630
- Editorial
- McSweeney's
- Local de publicação
- San Francisco:
- Data de publicação
- (2009)
- Palavras-chave
- immigration, hurricane katrina,
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Biography, autobiography, memoirs;
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