In the tradition of A CURIOUS INCIDENT and BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS- a young boy in a totalitarian state in a quest for his disappeared father
Gyorgy Dragoman (Author)
Gy rgy Dragoman was born in Marosvasarhely, Transylvania in 1973
and moved to Hungary when he was fifteen. The White King was first
published in its original Hungarian in 2005 where it won prizes and
is now an iconic bestseller. It is now published in over thirty
languages and has been made into a highly acclaimed
English-language film. Dragoman works as a translator- among the
works he has translated into Hungarian are short stories, essays
and texts by James Joyce, I. B. Singer, Neil Jordan and Ian McEwan.
The two most difficult novels he has ever translated are Irvine
Welsh's Trainspotting and Samuel Beckett's Watt. He lives in
Budapest with his family.
Paul Olchvary (Translator)
Paul Olchvary has translated many books for leading publishers,
including Gy rgy Dragoman's The White King, Andras Forgach's No
Live Files Remain, dam Bodor's The Sinistra Zone, Vilmos Kondor's
Budapest Noir and Karoly Pap's Azarel. He has received translation
awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and
Hungary's Milan F st Foundation. His shorter translations have
appeared in the Paris Review, New York Times Magazine, Kenyon
Review, Tablet, AGNI and Guernica. He lives in Williamstown,
Massachusetts.
It's the Just William books teamed up with Nineteen Eighty-Four; a
superb novel about childhood, schooldays and gang fights...Dragomán
lets the narrative rip, shifting the characters around like he's
Stephen King or Elmore Leonard...sums up the lunacy of Ceausescu's
regime better than anything else I've read.
*Guardian*
Dragoman is superb at the paraphernalia of boyhood...so much
intense experience is on offer...a poignant and big-hearted book,
firing the imagination long after the pages have stopped
turning
*Sunday Telegraph*
A most impressive debut
*Independent*
Electric, ominous, urgent...a coming of age tale with a
difference
*Daily Mail*
Sprawling, urgent, spilling with detail...at once charming and
disturbing'
*Financial Times*
Disturbing, compelling, beautifully translated
*The Times*
The structure suggests the way we tend to pluck an episode, a
cluster of related encounters, from our past and endow it with an
organic unity. Dragoman's method of presentation here greatly
reinforces his novel's authenticity...imaginatively
stimulating.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Dragoman's lucid, energetic prose mingles this rite of passage
scariness with the heart-in-mouth adrenalin of adolescence in the
growing confidence of Datje's compelling voice.
*Financial Times*
A darkly fascinating examination of the contrast between childhood
innocence and a totalitarian regime...a moving insight into a
bizarre, tragic period of Europe's history
*Glasgow Herald*
This vivid portrait of a childhood in totalitarian Europe [has a]
momentum that is irresistible, in which the unspoken story at the
heart of the book comes into focus with the full force of an all
too real nightmare
*Metro*
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