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.