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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: San Francisco : McSweeney's, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy of seven was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked by government helicopters and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.
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Genre/Form: Biographical fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Eggers, Dave.
What is the what.
San Francisco : McSweeney's, c2006
(OCoLC)648769389
Named Person: Valentino Achak Deng; Valentino Achak Deng
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 1932416641 9781932416640
OCLC Number: 75428313
Description: 475 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Other Titles: Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
Responsibility: Dave Eggers.

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In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States.  Read more...
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