# What Is the What

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- Book: [What is the What](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-eggers/what-is-the-what) ([What is the What.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-eggers/what-is-the-what.md))
- Authors: [Dave Eggers](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-eggers)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0738-590-1
- Pages: 560
- Published: 2007-10-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village...