What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a novel /
by Dave Eggers.
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 2007.
- xv, 538 p. : map ; 21 cm.
A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.