Well, the hardcover edition has a pretty cover. The plot also looks interesting in summary as well. 
 The rest is just a disappointment. Eggers' style, a vast improvement over AHWOSG and used to great effect in Zeitoun, seems oddly flat here. The setting is a flat caricature of Saudi Arabia, with a deformed businessman somehow seducing two women over there, (one Danish, one Saudi), earning a large commission while simultaneously moping about the end of the American Dream and the Yellow Menace of the Chinese. 
 Despite this spot of ichor I just spewed, I still have the greatest respect for Zeitoun, for his work at McSweeney's, for his philanthropy and his archaeology in discovering new writers. For the love of God, Eggers, please don't become Philip Roth and write banalities for the next thirty years. If this is a slump, don't let it get to you.