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By noodeeh on | From booksoncd2012.blogspot.com
What Is the What Review I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Having read "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", and having found much of it like being in a room with a hyperactive adolescent, I found Egger's approach to this book both creative and charming. In a collaboration with the subject, Eggers tells the life story of one of Sudan's Lost Boys, Achak Deng. He does this from a first person account...making us privy to the thoughts and emotions of Achak as he recounts his story...Read Full Story

WHAT IS THE WHAT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF VALNETINO ACHAK DENG

By Deborah Latham White on | From mybrowneyedview.com
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers What is the What is the true story of Valentino Achak Deng's life as one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan.  This is also one of the best insights that I have read to date on how warfare alters the life of a nation's children. Achak's story begins to unfold during a home invasion in Atlanta.  Achak is being robbed by an African American man and woman.  When the police are spotted in the neighborhood the thieves...Read Full Story

Book Review: Dave Eggers’ What is the What

By Editor on | From sgalternative.com
What is the What book cover Africa seldom appears in the world news. The hardship and suffering experienced in many African states become blind spots over time to the rest of the world, sanitised to the same old stories of rogue dictators and feudal government ruling along tribal roots. I did not know much about the civil wars in Sudan, nor how so many Sudanese suddenly got displaced from their homes and became wandering refugees. That was till I read Dave Eggers’ What is the What. One of the...Read Full Story

Authors@Google - Valentino Achak Deng

By Aaron Sharp on | From trafficbuilderssite.com
AtGoogleTalks asked: Valentino Achak Deng discusses the novel “What Is the What” by Dave Eggers as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on April 30, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA, as part of the Authors@Google series. Additional information about Valentino can be found at http://www.valentinoachakdeng.com Other Valentino YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjqD3WWbs9s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opKRp9cO6m0 http://www.youtube.com...Read Full Story

Video interview: Dave Eggers

By Scott Myers on | From gointothestory.com
The movie Where the Wild Things Are debuts this weekend. The screenplay is co-written by the movie's director Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers . Eggers, who also co-wrote the recently released movie Away We Go has quite a background as a writer as noted here : Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun , a nonfiction account a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What , a finalist for the 2006...Read Full Story
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