What is the What by Dave Eggers

What is the What

Author: Dave Eggers

This is the story of a man who, as a boy, was spearated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other children; who survived aerial bombardment and attacks by militias and wild animals; who ate whatever he could find or nothing at all; who, as a boy, considered ending his life to end the suffering; and who eventually made it to America, where a new and equally challenging journey began.

His name is Valentino Achak Deng, and in this novel Dave Eggers tells the extraordinary true story of his incredible journey.

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By Dave Eggers

Published: 05/07/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241145876

RRP: $29.99

How We Are Hungry: Popular Penguins

By Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and through its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendant. Yet while celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also proved himself time and again one of the modern masters of the form.

Published: 28/06/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141399355

RRP: $9.95

Zeitoun

By Dave Eggers

'Harrowing, spellbinding . . . nothing less than an indictment of the entire Bush era.' Observer

Published: 28/02/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141046815

RRP: $24.95

The Wild Things

By Dave Eggers

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet, and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered wilful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city. His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the...

Published: 27/09/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141037134

RRP: $24.95

How We Are Hungry

By Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his McSweeney's magazine and its many imitators the form is once again in the ascendancy. Yet while celebrating the work of others, Eggers has also proved time and again that he himself is one of the modern masters of the form.

Published: 31/05/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141020044

RRP: $24.95

You Shall Know Our velocity

By Dave Eggers

Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death – perhaps they'll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every...

Published: 07/06/2004

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141013459

RRP: $24.95