What Is The What

Author: Dave Eggers

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Price : 24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141015743
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.374
Publication date : 01 July 2008
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 33mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Dave Eggers
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Pages : 560
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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.