What is the What by Dave Eggers

April 13, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Vintage Books, 2007. Originally published 2006. 538 pgs. Purchased. Eggers’ novel is actually the biography of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee and member of the Lost Boys of Sudan program. Due to his young age at some of the story’s more pivotal moments, Deng and Eggers had to pronounce his story a novel. However, as Deng explains in his preface to the book, the book is historically accurate and the events detailed are as he remembers […]

Categories: 2012 Reads, Africa, Chunkster, Fiction, Genocide, Kenya • Tags: Dave Eggers