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This is the fictional 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 millitaries, government soldiers, lions and hyenas and myriad diseases in their search for sanctuary,...

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Main Author: Eggers, Dave.
Corporate Authors: BBC Audiobooks America.
Other Authors: Graham, Dion.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2007.
Subjects:
Deng, Valentino Achak > Fiction.
Refugees > Sudan > Fiction.
Refugees > United States > Fiction.
Sudanese > United States > Fiction.
Sudan > History > Civil War, 1983-2005 > Fiction.
Sudan > Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
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Summary: This is the fictional 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 millitaries, government soldiers, lions and hyenas and myriad diseases in their search for sanctuary, first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4,000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins.
Item Description: Downloadable audio file.
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Unabridged.
Duration: 20:30:39.
Playing Time: 20:30:39
Format: Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 294834 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9780792749783
0792749782
Author Notes: Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother and later became the inspiration for his highly acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year.

Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States.

Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018).

(Bowker Author Biography)

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