The white king
By: György Dragomán ; translated by Paul Olchváry
Contributors: Olchváry, Paul, translator
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781784161439
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Eleven-year-old Djata makes sure he is always home on Sundays. It is the day the State Security came to take his father away, and he believes it will be a Sunday when his father finally comes home again. While he waits, Djata lives out a life of adventure. He plays wargames in flaming wheat fields; hunts for gold in abandoned claymines; watches porn in a backroom at the cinema, and plays chess with an automaton. But lurking beneath his rebel boyhood, pulling at his heartstrings, is the continued absence of his father. When he finally uncovers the real truth, he risks losing his childhood for ever.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Doubleday, 2008.

Translated from the Hungarian.