I feel like a jerk for not loving this book. I also seem to be in the minority, so maybe you shouldn’t trust my opinion.What is the What tells the (maybe true, maybe fictional) story of a Sudanese refugee who spent his childhood struggling to survive in various African refugee camps. As an adult, he...
I did wind up loving this, but it took some time. This is a novel--and non-fiction. As put in the Preface, the book is the "soulful account" of the life of Valentine Achak Deng, one of the "Lost Boys" of the Sudan from the time he was separated from his family in Marial Bai to the thirteen years he ...
I have been on a [a:Dave Eggers|3371|Dave Eggers|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1291475855p2/3371.jpg] kick this whole year, playing catch up. And I have had [b:What Is the What|4952|What Is the What|Dave Eggers|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328837457s/4952.jpg|3271214]...
Easily the best book I've read this year. It's a biography, a history of South Africa, a commentary on America, all rolled into one. Few writers can reach the level of honesty and richness which Eggers did with this dense memoir-cum-novel; together with Valentino Achak Deng, he has weaved a beautifu...
I'm having trouble coming up with the right word to describe reading this book. "Enjoyed" is definitely not the right word - although the book is well-written, it's hard to call it enjoyable, nor is it trying to be. Moving? Something seems facile and reductionist about that, to reduce the story to ...
Now that was a lot of information. Too much.Valentino Achak Deng is one of the lost boys of the civil war in Sudan. He survived a genocide, walking from Sudan to Ethiopia where boys were getting picked off one by one by lions in the night. Crocodiles, vultures, dysentery, soldiers tying to blow h...
This surely one of the best books I've read. The story of Valentino one of the Sudan Lost Boys...We learn his story and how he walked from Sudan to Kenya looking to find a place of safety...It's a fantastic and moving story.
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