Zeitoun

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  • When the American Dream Becomes a Nightmare  

    Zeitoun (Paperback)
    Zeitoun is a Muslim immigrant who has realized the American dream for himself and his family to Hurricane Katrina comes. Arrested on flimsy pretext that he is weeks crammed with hundreds of other fellow sufferers in a makeshift open-air prison in whi
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  • Lessons from Katrina  

    Zeitoun (Paperback)
    Dave Eggers fascinating documentary of what happened after the devastating hurricane Katrina is an unsparing of incompetent, arrogant and inhuman procedure of state bodies as part of their dubious and inefficient relief. Hard to imagine that another
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  • liked to read and often annoyed  

    Zeitoun (Paperback)
    I liked the story and read more or less on a train - and yet often annoyed by it. It tells the "true" story of a Muslim family who lived through the Hurricane in New Orleans. While his wife and children even just leave the city in good time, hea
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  • Katrina can perish the judiciary  

    Zeitoun (Paperback)
    Zeitoun is the true story of the Zeitoun Muslims, who lives in New Orleans. When hurricane "Katrina" makes the city, he left behind - but his wife and children to leave the sinking city. After a few days he is suddenly arrested without reason an
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  • Beyond Soap and feeling Kitsch  

    Zeitoun (Paperback)
    It's rare that I read a book twice, but in this was the case. Zeitoun is anything but a gefühlige kitschy depiction of the drama to New Orleans, but excellent narrative work, which comes as a historical novel (after all, Eggers has many stakeholders
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