What Is the What - Brossura

New York Times Bestseller
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

“Told with humor, humanity, and bottomless compassion for his subject. . . . It is impossible to read this book and not be humbled, enlightened, transformed.”
—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

“Dave Eggers has made the outlines of the tragedy in East Africa . . . not only sharp and clear but indelible. An eloquent testimony to the power of storytelling, What Is the What is an extraordinary work of witness, and of art.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Eggers’s limpid prose gives Valentino an unaffected, compelling voice and makes his narrative by turns harrowing, funny, bleak and lyrical. The result is a horrific account of the Sudanese tragedy, but also an emblematic saga of modernity–of the search for home and self in a world of unending upheaval.”
—Publishers Weekly

“[What Is the What] sings like a novel–a novel in which every phrase falls with exquisite, revealing precision and the themes of the story play out as satisfyingly as in a large-scale symphony.”
—Seattle Times

“A work of significant strengths, What Is the What is not only a valuable cultural document, it’s also an engaging and often compelling read. Eggers has crafted a novel notable for its writing as well as its historical relevance.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Hands down, Dave Eggers’ What Is the What stands as the single most thought-provoking, unusual and moving book I have read all year.”
—USA Today

Dave Eggers is the author of three previous books, is the editor of McSweeney’s, a quarterly magazine and book-publishing company, and is co-founder of 826 Valencia, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centres for young people. As a journalist, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and The Believer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and daughter.