Simply Speaking-An engaging, enthralling novel.

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	• What Is the What (Vintage) Dave Eggers Vintage, 2007 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 147 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An inticing read

What is the What shows the horrors in Sudan, like many other African nations today, are facing through the eyes of a transformed young boy.

Unflinchingly Honest

Eggers unflinchingly honest handling of the destruction, hope, and loneliness of 'The Lost Boys' reveals new insights and personalizes the struggle. Hard to read the stories, but impossible to put down.

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Educational and quite entertaining

If you don't know much about the Lost Boys of Sudan, you will find this book even more educational than I did. However, having heard and read much about the Lost Boys already, much of this story was known to me and some value was lost. However, I still learned quite a bit from this book.

The strong point, though, is the storytelling and entertainment value of this book. The story is personal, sad, and downright funny. There were two sections dealing with conservative African culture in particular that almost had me rolling on the ground. The humor and different perspective definitely helps cut the depressing subject matter.

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Simply Speaking-An engaging, enthralling novel.

I prefer not to add to the elegant and thorough reviews of this book that were placed by other readers. Simply put-this is an enthralling, fascinating and thought provoking novel that places its readers squarely in the bare feet of Valentino Achak Deng, its protagonist. It does not stir up feelings of pity, but helps the reader to intimately understand and feel the struggle of the young Sudanese boy, and to realize that there is evil, pain and struggle everywhere, not just in Africa, but everywhere...even Atlanta...it shows that life is just a circle, and that it really does not matter how civilized a society thinks it is, in the end, we are all human beings capable of the worst characteristics and prepared to act unjustly against other human beings.

This is a book that explains human behaviour without teaching. A truly wonderful work of art.

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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.

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