What Is the What
About this book
*What Is the What* is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man. --From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects
- emigration and immigration
- fiction
- fiction, biographical
- flyktingar
- flyktingläger
- history
- inbördeskrig
- littérature américaine
- new york times reviewed
- refugees
- refugees in fiction
- romans en novellen ; vertaald
- sudan civil war, 1983-2005
- sudanese
- sudanese in fiction
- sudanesischer flüchtling
- sudanesiska flyktingar
- sudan in fiction
- traductions françaises
- united states in fiction
- valentino achak deng in fiction