What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a novel Dave Eggers.
Publication details: London : Hamish Hamilton 2007.Description: 475 p. :maps. ;24 cmISBN:- 9780241142585
- 813.6
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | EGG | Available | 039681 |
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In this heartrending and astonishing novel, Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the Sudanese civil war through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the US. Driven from his home as a boy, Deng walks with thousands of other orphans to Ethiopia, where he finds safety - for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, ganjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, aid workers, disease and starvation. His story is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war, told with expansive humanity and unexpected humour.