Dave Eggers’ first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since then he’s written two more novels and launched an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project.
Meanwhile, Eggers has established himself as a philanthropist and teacher-at-large. In 1998 he launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened six more chapters across the United States. He has extended his advocacy of students by supporting their educators, instituting a monthly grant for exceptional Bay Area teachers. His TED Prize wish is for more poeple to follow him into getting involved in your local school -- and talk about it -- through the website Once Upon a School.
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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评分真實的故事。關於hurricane Katrina,都有大量的新聞報道,但是這本書從一個傢庭,尤其一個Syrian傢庭深入地去寫災難前,災難中後災難後的故事,分彆從男主女主兩條綫去寫,會對災難更有現場感。從中看到的一些東西讓我知道瞭以前從來沒有想象過的一些天災之後的後續效應。此外,邊看會邊氣憤,前半段是在氣男主的任性。可能因為是真實故事,他有他無私之處之餘又有自私任性的地方。後半段會氣憤他受到的對待。
评分作者的文筆很好, 結尾很打動人。Zeitoun故事本身其實有些疑點,但大體上並不影響故事的藝術性和思想性。值得一看。
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