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What Is the What : The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

What Is the What : The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

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A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award traces the story of two child Sudanese civil war refugees and their witness to the devastation that has torn their homeland, a time during which one struggles to understand what is happening and the other joins the rebel army. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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What Is the What : The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

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With WHAT IS THE WHAT Dave Eggers leaves behind his reputation as a literary wunderkind and trickster to write a heartfelt novel about his real-life friend Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese boy who lost his parents during the civil war, and traveled thousands of miles to reach refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Along the way he faced lions, murderous soldiers, dehydration, and exhaustion of both the body and the spirit. Deng eventually comes to America, where he finds a different kind of oppression in a culture that has no patience with, or interest in, the terrible realities of the rest of the world. Deng's harrowing story emerges in flashbacks during the course of a robbery at his Atlanta apartment, during which he is badly beaten. Deng and Eggers may seem like unlikely collaborators, but Deng's sobering story and Eggers's sharp prose blend into a powerful tale, proof of Eggers's developing and maturing literary voice.

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A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award traces the story of two child Sudanese civil war refugees and their witness to the devastation that has torn their homeland, a time during which one struggles to understand what is happening and the other joins the rebel army. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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Author

Dave Eggers

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780307385901

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$15.95

Publisher

Vintage Books

Publication Date

10/09/2007

Fiction/Non-Fiction

Fiction

Release Status

In Print

Series

Vintage

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Pages

538

Measurements

Weight: 0.85 Pounds

Height: 7.75 Inches

Length: 5 Inches

Thickness: 1 Inches


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