'What Is the What' by Dave Eggers

What is the What
by Dave Eggers

Thank you for your interest in What Is the What, the new novel by Dave Eggers. This website contains up-to-date information about the book, including store availability, shipping dates for the second printing, and other relevant links.

What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee of the Sudanese civil war. Fleeing from his village in the mid-1980s, Deng becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys—children pursued by the militias, government soldiers, lions and hyenas and myriad diseases, in their search for sanctuary, first in Ethiopia and then Kenya. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4,000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins.

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What Is the What
McSweeney's Books
List Price: $26 U.S., $35 Canada
ISBN: 1-932416-64-1
Release Date: October 2006

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Recently, we've received occasional reports that Amazon.com is displaying shipping estimates in the range of 2–5 weeks. As of December 20, the stock at the warehouse is replenished and books should be ready to ship out immediately. Please feel free to email us if you are experiencing difficulty finding the book and we will do our best to resolve the problem.

Also, the second edition of What Is the What is currently shipping. You can expect to find the redesigned version of the book in stores in late December. Hopefully, this will also resolve any issues concerning availability.

Other useful links: [McSweeney's] [Valentino Achak Deng Foundation]