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What is the What

What is the What

by Dave Eggers (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $3.65
Synopsis

Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Truly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 560
 Edition: Open market ed
 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 04 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 0141034025
ISBN 13: 9780141034027

Media Reviews
I cannot recall the last time I was this moved by a novel. It is impossible to read this book and not be humbled, enlightened, transformed
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
If there was ever any doubt that Dave Eggers is one of our most important storytellers, What Is the What should put it to rest... [A] strange, beautiful and unforgettable work * San Francisco Chronicle *
A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising * London Review of Books *
I cannot recall the last time I was this moved by a novel. It is impossible to read this book and not be humbled, enlightened, transformed
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
If there was ever any doubt that Dave Eggers is one of our most important storytellers, What Is the What should put it to rest... [A] strange, beautiful and unforgettable work * San Francisco Chronicle *
A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising * London Review of Books *
Author Bio
Dave Eggers is the author of eleven books, including The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Medicis Etranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His non-fiction and journalism have appeared in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Best American Travel Writing and the Best American Essays. Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's, which publishes original fiction and non-fiction, and distributes the Voice of Witness series of books, which use oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. He is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centres with locations around the country, and of ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his work has been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Northern California with his family.