What Is the What

From the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 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 back cover New Download What Is the What [ by ] Dave Eggers [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr If you know me at all, you know I read a lot So I don t take these reviews lightly Here goes What is the What is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read The story of Valentino Achak Deng, a so called Lost Boy of the Sudan, is so moving that after reading the book I went to his web site and signed up for informa...It takes a certain and rare kind of writer to make a story about civil war, genocide, and a refugee crisis boring and unreadable that writer, specifically, is Dave Eggers It s not that I don t understand the purpose that this book serves just as we import the Third World s raw resources to fuel our own material greed, so must we import their tragedies to break up the monotony of our lives My question is can t we get better books to do it First of all, the voice is terrible At points it r It takes a certain and rare kind of writer to make a story about civil war, genocide, and a refugee crisis boring and unreadable that writer, specifically, is Dave Eggers It s not that I don t understand the purpose that this book serves just as we import the Third World s raw resources to fuel our own material greed, so must we import their tragedies to break up the monotony of our lives My...Valentino, I just don t know what God has against you These words were directed at the subject of this novel biography and are pretty much a motif that runs throughout most of this book.This is one man s true story of the Lost Boys of the Sudan Valentino Achak Deng, at age seven, and thousands of boys just like him, endured all manner of hardship as they fled their homes as civil war beginning in 1983 devastated their country Their journey from refugee camp to refugee camp is fraught with Valentino, I just don t know what God has against you These words were directed at the subject of this novel biography and are pretty much a motif that runs throughout most of this book.This is one man s true story of the ...TOO MUCH, AND NOT ENOUGH A PARADOX With her open and confident sexuality, she was the constant igniter of everything flammable within usHmm, if this Sudanese refugee now American Valentine Achak Deng can turn a phrase like that, how come he needs Dave Eggars to shape his book and cop the byline Okay, maybe he can t, maybe those delightful sentences are pure Dave So what about thisI had feared for a long time that secretly Tabitha was well versed in the ways of love and that the momen TOO MUCH, AND NOT ENOUGH A PARADOX With her open and confident sexuality, she was the constant igniter of everything flammable within usHmm, if this Sudanese refugee now American Valentine Achak Deng can turn a phrase like that, how come he needs Dave Eggars to shape his book and cop the byline Okay, maybe he can t, maybe those delightful sentences are pure Dave So what about thisI had feared for a long time that secretly Tabitha was well versed in the ways of love and that the moment we were alone she would want to move too quickly Now this sounds like the authentic voice of an African trying to speak of delicate matters in his second language to me, and comes off as horribly stilted, but understandably so Okay, so no Dave Eggars there, that s pure Valentine Now since it s the clunky uber sincere stilted voice which tells 98% of this long tale, why is t...GREAT STORY, NOT SO GREAT BOOK This took me THREE MONTHS to finish I did read other books in the meantime, but believe me, I wouldn t have dragged my feet on this one if the storytelling hadn t been so TERRIBLY AWFUL Examples of STORIES told particularly badly.a The drama teacher Miss Gladys and the Dominicsb The romance between Achak and Tabithac Life at Kakumad The story of Maria, the girl who called him Sleepere The walk from Pinyudo to Kakumaf The play times with Achak and the GREAT STORY, NOT SO GREAT BOOK This took me THREE MONTHS to finish I did read other books in the meantime, but believe me, I wouldn t have...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 him up, starvation, a car accident, and a robbery in Atlanta after being relocated to the US.Life has not been easy for Valentino Yet he somehow keeps going with a positivity that is hard to believe The 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 tyin...Nine years after this was published I ve finally read it Have meant to read it since loving Zeitoun a few years ago Wife listened to audiobook on long commute and deemed it a truly heartbreaking work of staggering genius also proclaimed herself an Eggers fan after not being so into his memoir I didn t get to it for...When so much hype and reputation converge on such a complex and sensitive topic only to receive unchecked praise from the American publishing industry and profitable sales, I fear disaster, choir preaching and the perpetration of harmful stereotypes Despite my interest in African literature, in African conflicts and in the way that the developed world engages with Africa, I have been avoiding this book since I learned of its existence A friend of mine who has lived and worked in Sudan vouched When so much hype and reputation converge on such a complex and sensitive topic only to receive unchecked praise from the American publishing industry and profitable sales, I fear disaster, choir preaching and the perpetration of harmful stereotypes Despite my interest in African literature, in African conflicts and in the way that the developed world engages with Africa, I have been avoiding this book since I learned of its existence A friend of mine who has lived and worked in Sudan vouched unreservedly for its authenticity and inoffensiveness and lent me her copy I m not mad at her.Dave Eggersor less avoids cheapening his subject, weakening his message or losing credibility for the duration of a boo...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 something that affecte...Dave Eggers tells Achack s story much like you would hear it if you had befriended the Sudanese refugee yourself this book is like a conversation with a good friend you start where you are hello, how are you, i am being robbed at gun point you move back to the begining this is where i am from, the world was dust, we knew it to be Sudan, there was nobut, to explain the begining, and to get to the end, you often have laughs in the middle successful with women eventually a life Dave Eggers tells Achack s story much like you would hear it if you had befriended the Sudanese refugee yourself this book is like a conversation with a good friend you start where you are hello, how are you, i am being robbed at gun point you move back to the begining this is where i am from, the world was dust, we knew it to be Sudan, there was nobut, to explain the begining, and to get to the end, you often have laughs in the middle successful with women eventually a life is woven infront of you, and somewhere along the way you become a part of the story it s just that i haven t had a conversation like this before, one that starts with a burglary in Atlanta, draws you back to a small village in soutern Sudan, and marches you in and out of Ethiopia, the jungles, the rivers, the lions stare, over the bodies, into the refugee camps, into love, out of heartbreak this is a vast story this is a story told unflin...

• English
• 14 August 2017
Dave Eggers
• Hardcover
• 475 pages
• 1932416641
• Dave Eggers
• What Is the What