What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel (Audiobook)

from readaholic12

A Lost Boy of Sudan's heart wrenching telling of his idyllic childhood obliterated by war, his unimaginable struggle to survive as a refugee and his attempt to rebuild a life in America. Dave Eggars weaves this story perfectly through present and past to capture in Valentino's voice his witness t...

from mjspear

A fictionalized account of Valentino Achak Deng newly arrived to Atlanta, GA from his native Sudan. Achak was part of the great Sudanese refugee movement, aka, "the Lost Boys." The book opens with Achak being mugged and burgled when he naively lets in a woman seeking help. He alternates his ordea...

from elbakerone

My first surprise on opening the cover of Dave Eggers novel What is the What was the subtitle The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. As my mind struggled to reconcile finding the word "autobiography" on a book plucked from the fiction shelves, I proceeded on to the book's content - a first pe...

from gocam

Valentino Achak Deng knows about pain, loss, hurt, charity, faith, desperation, evil, apathy, violence & kindness. He has felt these things most acutely. Eggers channels his story magnificently without intruding or inserting his own narrative. You must read this book, which is a tremendous statem...

from stonelaura

As the title conveys, this amazing book is both an autobiography of a real person named Valentino Achak Deng and a novel compiled from hours of conversation between the author, Dave Eggers, and Deng as he recounted his life in Eastern Africa. Not wanting to misrepresent the facts, but wanting to ...