What is the What - Hardcover

Eggers, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932416641 ISBN 13: 9781932416640

Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award traces the story of two child Sudanese civil war refugees and their witness to the devastation that has torn their homeland, a time during which one struggles to understand what is happening and the other joins the rebel army.

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Review:

'A stirring tale, told with admirable simplicity by a classy writer'.

About the Author:

Dave Eggers is the author of eleven books, including The Circle; Heroes
of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His non-fiction and journalism have appeared in the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Best American Travel Writing and the Best American Essays.
Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's, which publishes original fiction and non-fiction, and distributes the Voice of Witness series of books, which use oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. He is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centres with locations around the country, and of ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and his work has been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Northern California with his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1932416641
• ISBN 13: 9781932416640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450