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Knopf
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Featuring: Abdulrahman Zeitoun
ISBN: 0307387941
EAN: 9780307387943
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Non-Fiction
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman
Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four,
chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and
contracting business. In the days after the storm, he
traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing
on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on
September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared. Eggers’s
riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making,
explores Zeitoun’s roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy —
an American who converted to Islam — and their children, and
the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States
generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was
possible. Like What Is the What, Zeitoun was written in
close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast
research — in this case, in the United States, Spain, and Syria.
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