Zeitoun

Great story - regardless of your biases or political standings just to read the story gives you a look at how unfair life can be and how the governement can jst mess up sometimes. Great book moves along well and keeps you interetsted

This is an amazing job by Dave Eggers, sailing the waters of non-fiction by telling the story of this Syrian-American who became a hero for his community and a victim of his adoptive country. Eggers' account is both entertaining and inspiring, deeply moving and ultimately shocking when we see the kind of things he had to endure.
The narration of Firdous Barnji is simply perfect. Eggers and Barnji know how to tell a true story.

I'm part of a reading group and this was the voted on title this month. I hesitated on listening but now can't put my iPhone down. Two-thumbs up!!

This was a very good book -- hard to believe that what happened to Zeitoun can really happen is this country, natural disaster or not. I didn't love the narrator but the book is well worth a listen.

Eye-opening, exciting, scary, lovely, engrossing. Dave Eggers ("What is the What?") is a phenomenon. Bamji's narration is also super. He has a very slight accent that gives color to his reading without obscuring it.

This book opened my eyes to what the government is really like. All Americans take note. This could happen to you In my eyes, this man was a hero. I hope he is doing well.

I am half way into this book. The author does a great job in getting you sucked into the story and really caring about the characters. I listened to this book based on the rave reviews from fellow listeners. I feel like i lived through this dramatic event with the protagonist. A gifted writer. A talented reader also gives a great layer and depth to the text adding to the enjoyment. 60 minutes will go by at a clip and it feels more like 15. Great job. Post 9-11, this is a great reminder that we were all once foreigners and that we are all Americans, and though most of us did not grow up in Syria, we are all able to identify with the fears and aspirations of the main charachters.

If you walk into this book expecting a novel, expect to be disappointed. A previous reviewer referred to a lack of 'heroism' -- they might be wrong, in that Zeutoun himself showed a kind of foolhardy heroism -- but he misses the point. If, on the other hand, you would find a deep slice into a period of American life and political history, in what is basically a great piece of JOURNALISM, then you'll be very happy. It does walk the line with being a nonfiction novel sometimes (esp. with Zeitoun's dreams and the flashbacks to his eldest brother) but it lacks the kind of satisfying climax/denoument that novel readers might expect. I, for one, loved this book. It was a compelling look at real people living through two extraordinary tragedies. I with the Zeitouns well, wherever they are, they sound like great people.

non fiction story. The narration could have been a lot better, but worked. The ending gave a provided thought excellent thoughts to summarize the events.

Zeitoun is our community's One Book, One Community selection, and it's easy to see why it was chosen. It has very interesting characters, a gripping story and it's true - depicting terrible injustices committed by our government against some of the victims of Hurrican Katrina.

Since the book was selected and promoted for community wide reading and discussion, Zeitoun himself has now found himself charged with attempting to hire others to murder his wife.

Dave Eggers' book takes care to paint Zeitoun as a man who is very concerned with doing the right thing for others, and doing what God would want him to do as a devout Muslim. Of course, none of that is in keeping with the charges he now faces. Zeitoun was a troubling book that left me with many unanswered questions.