A Long Walk to Water is a 2010 novel by Linda Sue Park that tells the story of Salva Dut, a member of the Dinka tribe who lived in Sudan in 1985. The story is based on Dut's true story and is written in alternating points of view and timelines. The story follows Dut's childhood in Sudan, where he is separated from his family during a civil war. Dut and thousands of others walk for hundreds of miles, enduring hunger and dehydration

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