What Is the What
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What Is the What
Narrated by:
Dion Graham
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Narrated by:
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Dion Graham
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Dave Eggers
Summary
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety for a time.
Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these....
©2006 Dave Eggers (P)2007 BBC Audiobooks America
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Critic Reviews
"Read Dave Eggers. What Is the What - it's the best book of the year." ( Guardian)
"A remarkable book: harrowing, witty, wretched, delightful; and always compelling, always surprising." ( London Review of Books)
a long important beautiful story
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