Eggers, Dave.

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.

9780307385901 (pbk.) 0307385906

2007021108


Deng, Valentino Achak--Fiction.


Sudanese--United States--Fiction.
Refugees--Sudan--Fiction.
Refugees--United States--Fiction.


Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Fiction.
Sudan--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS 3605.G48 / W43 2007