Kapitoil

"Teddy Wayne has written a brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I've come across in a long time."
-- Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

"An innovative and incisive meditation on the wages of corporate greed, the fundamental darkness of its vision lit by the author's great comic intelligence and wit."
-- Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, and Versailles

With a fresh and singular voice, Teddy Wayne marks his literary debut with the story of one 26 year old Middle Eastern man's attempt to live the American Dream in New York City. Like the award-winning Netherland and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Kapitoil provides an absorbing look into American culture and New York finance from an outsider's perspective.

Author: Teddy Wayne
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/13/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.54w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780061873218
Award: Literary Award - Runner-Up

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/21/2009 pg. 34
Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 36
BookPage 04/01/2010

About the Author
Wayne, Teddy: -

Teddy Wayne is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.