Sudan.This is one where the audiobook was superior to the print book. I have tried several times to read this, but the sameness of the tone put me to sleep. Dion Graham's narration brought it alive.To the question of whether this is fiction or non-fiction, Deng's story or Eggers's conceit, my impres...
I couldn't imagine the Dave Eggers I knew writing something like this. The author of 'A heartbraking work of staggering genius' was definitely talented and original, but looked too much self-oriented. At the contrary, 'What is the What' shows us a well grown novelist who succeed in abandoning his ka...
Really well-written. What could have been a mire of human tragedy becomes engaging reading.An excellent companion piece to the documentary "Lost Boys of the Sudan," although the combination can be a bit depressing when one realizes that this story is playing itself out over and over again.
This is actually the life experience of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese Lost Boy now living in Atlanta - novelized because memories since he was 10 years old only partly accurate, but the account is culled from hundreds of hours of interviews that Eggers had with Deng. [full review]
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