What is the What
Author(s): Dave Eggers
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino's travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)-the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.374
- : 01 July 2008
- : 198mm X 129mm X 33mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 560
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Dave Eggers