Erano solo ragazzi in cammino. Autobiografia di Valentino Achak Deng
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In questo sconvolgente romanzo, Eggers racconta la storia della guerra civile in Sudan attraverso gli occhi di Valentino Achak Deng, un giovanissimo profugo che ora vive negli Stati Uniti. Seguiamo così la sua storia mentre, ancora bambino, si trova costretto a fuggire dal suo villaggio, dopo l'ennesima strage, e si incammina insieme a migliaia di altri orfani alla volta dell'Etiopia, dove per un po' sarà al sicuro. Le traversie di Valentino, che sono davvero di sapore biblico, lo portano in contatto con soldati governativi, miliziani allo stato brado, ribelli, mine antiuomo, iene, leoni, malattie, fame, sete e privazioni di ogni sorta, ma anche con una serie di storie tanto struggenti quanto inattese. La limpida prosa di Eggers dà a Valentino una voce unica, affascinante e sobria capace di rendere il suo racconto ora straziante, ora divertente, ora inquietante, ora poetico. Il risultato è una narrazione terribile della tragedia sudanese, ma anche un'emblematica saga della modernità.
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- Pagine: 598
- Data di uscita: 10-06-2008
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If you know me at all, you know I read a lot. So I don't take these reviews lightly. Here goes: What is the What is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read! The story of Valentino Achak Deng, a so-called Lost Boy of the Sudan, is so moving that after reading the book I went to his web Leggi tutto
It takes a certain and rare kind of writer to make a story about civil war, genocide, and a refugee crisis boring and unreadable; that writer, specifically, is Dave Eggers. It's not that I don't understand the purpose that this book serves - just as we import the Third World's raw resources to fuel
Written in the first-person, this book started off as a captivating epic tale of a Sudanese boy's life, from Southern Sudan village life to genocide; from many hundred mile walks with others mostly boys, escaping for their lives; through to refugee status, through to resettlement in the US... with t Leggi tutto
TOO MUCH, AND NOT ENOUGH : A PARADOX With her open and confident sexuality, she was the constant igniter of everything flammable within us Hmm, if this Sudanese refugee & now American Valentine Achak Deng can turn a phrase like that, how come he needs Dave Eggars to shape his book and cop the byline? Leggi tutto
Nine years after this was published I've finally read it. Have meant to read it since loving Zeitoun a few years ago. Wife listened to audiobook on long commute and deemed it a truly heartbreaking work of staggering genius -- also proclaimed herself an Eggers fan after not being so into his memoir.
Now that was a lot of information. Too much. Valentino Achak Deng is one of the lost boys of the civil war in Sudan. He survived a genocide, walking from Sudan to Ethiopia where boys were getting picked off one by one by lions in the night. Crocodiles, vultures, dysentery, soldiers tying to blow him Leggi tutto
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