What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng / Dave Eggers.

Title:

ISBN:

9781932416640

9780307385901

Personal Author:

Eggers, Dave

Publication Information:

San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2006]

Physical Description:

475 pages : map ; 24 cm

Summary:

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.

Personal Subject:

Deng, Valentino Achak-Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Refugees--Sudan -- Fiction.

Refugees--United States -- Fiction.

Sudanese--United States -- Fiction.

Genre:

Biographical fiction

Audience:

870L Lexile