What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a novel
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Deng, Valentino Achak > Fiction. Sudanese > United States > Emigration and immigration > Fiction. Refugees > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Fiction. |
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Biographical fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0676979491
- ISBN: 9780676979497
- Physical Description xv, 538 pages : map
- Edition Vintage Canada ed.
- Publisher Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2007.
- Copyright ©2006
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General Note: | Originally published: San Francisco : McSweeney's, 2006. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 21.00 |
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What Is the What
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino's travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)-the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.