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What Is the What (Paperback)

By: Dave Eggers (Author)

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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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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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5 out of 5 stars Holy crap, this somehow isnt self-indulgent!, May 6, 2008
By Catgirl69
One would think a Dave Eggers foray into the broad ideal of "African Aid" would reek of pretension and self-deprecating malaise endemic to New York mid-30s late 20s literary life. But no! What we have here is a touching portrait written, only in pen, by Dave Eggers. This is Valentino Dengs journey, not Eggers. The language is strongly his and where this McSweenys founder shines is his ability to craft narrative. Hes not writing in this book so much as ordering the events of Dengs life into the terrible and awesome journey it has become. Its a great book.

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