Ebook {Epub PDF} What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers

Active ingredients in anti-stigma programmes in mental health What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. By Dave Eggers. Pinfold V, Thornicroft G, Huxley P, Farmer P. Active Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Eggers uses the voice of Valentino Achak Deng to contrast life in Sudan and refugee camps with life in the United States. The voice is one of the things that makes this book such an engaging read: we hear Valentino, and we sense what he senses. The characters made me laugh out loud, especially William K.  · Eggers has been working on the book for four years now, deeply entrenched in the community of Sudanese refugees in the U.S., and in went to southern Sudan with a refugee named Valentino Achak Deng. During that trip, Deng was reunited with the family he hadn't seen in 17 years.5/5(4).

What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil wars Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Excerpt: Dave Eggers' What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng If pressed upon to tell The Truth and nothing but the Truth, The Excerpt Reader will avow, like most Western readers I guess, to a strong abstention from any non-western literature. Valentino Achak Deng, co-founder, was born in southern Sudan (now South Sudan), in the village of Marial Bai. He fled in the late s during the second Sudanese civil war, when his village was destroyed by murahaleen—the same type of militia that currently terrorize the Darfur region of Sudan. Deng spent nine years in Ethiopian and Ke.

What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. What Is the What, pronounced a novel and an autobiography by its author Dave Eggers, is the life story of Valentino Achak Deng. Fusing fictional repre sentation with autobiographical and historical detail, Eggers's first-person nar rator recreates the voice of Valentino,1 one of Sudan's so-called "Lost Boys."2. Active ingredients in anti-stigma programmes in mental health What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. By Dave Eggers. Pinfold V, Thornicroft G, Huxley P, Farmer P. Active.