The Resource What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers
What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers
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The item What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
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- Summary
- This biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- xv, 538 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307385901
- Label
- What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
- Title
- What is the what
- Title remainder
- the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
- Statement of responsibility
- Dave Eggers
- Subject
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- Deng, Valentino Achak -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Refugees -- Sudan -- Biography | Fiction
- Refugees -- United States -- Biography | Fiction
- Sudan -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Sudanese -- United States -- Biography | Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001
- Awards note
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist, 2006
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Eggers, Dave
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3605.G48
- LC item number
- W43 2007
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Deng, Valentino Achak
- Sudanese
- Refugees
- Refugees
- Sudan
- Sudan
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn132681528
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- xv, 538 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307385901
- Lccn
- 2007021108
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- F EGGERS ; XX-FI ; [P16BP206, #17, 5@16.95, ES/ ]
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)132681528
- Label
- What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn132681528
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- xv, 538 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307385901
- Lccn
- 2007021108
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- F EGGERS ; XX-FI ; [P16BP206, #17, 5@16.95, ES/ ]
- Other physical details
- map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)132681528
Subject
- Deng, Valentino Achak -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Refugees -- Sudan -- Biography | Fiction
- Refugees -- United States -- Biography | Fiction
- Sudan -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
- Sudanese -- United States -- Biography | Fiction
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