What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng HB Good Condition

What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers 2006 Hard Cover - in very good condition see pics. Based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. What is What was a finalist for the National Book Award. Set during the Second Sudanese Civil War - its an epic tail of survival of a young boy age seven crossing three countries to find freedom. NY TIMES Review: "A startling act of literary ventriloquism that...remind[s] us just how eloquently the author can write about loss and mortality and sorrow. A devastating and humane account of one man's survival against terrible odds..." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children --the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life. . . This book will be a conversation starter for sure. standard size book - not oversized.