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McSweeney's Publishing
November 2006
On Sale: October 26, 2006
386 pages
ISBN: 1932416641
EAN: 9781932416640
Hardcover
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In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates
the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of
Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United
States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a
boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where
he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly
Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government
soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas
and lions, disease and starvation — and a string of
unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in
Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled
in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In
this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising
humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in
Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the
Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in
a world collapsing around him.
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