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What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a novel
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What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a novel

Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: London : Penguin, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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'What is the What' is an unflinching portrayal of the lives of two boys during the Sudanese civil war - one, at seven, too young to know what's happening to his country; the other, at ten, old enough to fight for the rebel army.
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Genre/Form: Biographical fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Valentino Achak Deng
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9780141015743 0141015748
OCLC Number: 214305723
Notes: Originally published: San Francisco, Calif.: McSweeney's, 2006; London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007.
Description: 538 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Dave Eggers.

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Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to join thousands of other orphans on their walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety. Along the way  Read more...

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