What Is the What

Dave Eggers

earliest edition we have, 2006 Gallimard Education, 2011 704 pages

*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 find...

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Editions we hold

What is the What audiobook · 2013 · AudioGO · 9781620649138
What Is the What edition · 2012 · Random House of Canada · 9780307371379
Grand Quoi edition · 2011 · Gallimard Education · 704 pages · 9782070440238
What Is the What edition · 2011 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141917412
Weit gegangen paperback · 2010 · Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH · 9783462042030
מהו המה edition · 2009 · Maḥbarot le-sifrut · 573 pages · 9789655173420
Wat is de Wat ebook · 2009 · Lebowski · 449 pages · 9789048805303
Wat is de Wat edition · 2009 · Lebowski · 639 pages · 9789048813551
Le Grand Quoi : Autobiographie de Valentino Achak Deng edition · 2009 · Editions Gallimard · 9782070786893
What Is the What audiobook · 2008 · Audiogo · 9780792766032
What Is the What hardcover · 2008 · Paw Prints · 538 pages · 9781439560617
What Is The What The Autobiography Of Valentino Achak Deng A Novel edition · 2008 · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · 9780141015743

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