Rey blanco

by György Dragomán

Como se enfrenta la inocencia a una monstruosa maquinaria politica? Djata tiene once anos y se asegura de estar siempre en casa los domingos. Porque fue un domingo cuando la policia secreta se llevo a su padre, y esta convencido que de que el regresara un domingo. Y mientras, el nino vive su se pelea con los chicos del barrio, juega a la guerra en campos de trigo, descubre el muslo de una chica y unas peliculas porno en la trastienda de un cine, busca oro en minas abandonadas, sufre humillaciones, escruta los silencios de su madre y juega al ajedrez con un automata Una novela sobre la aventura y el dolor de pasar de la infancia a la adolescencia, ambientada en los paranoicos anos previos al hundimiento del comunismo tras el Telon de Acero. Un libro aplaudido internacionalmente que emociona, sobrecoge y deslumbra.

256 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2011

About the author

György Dragomán is a Hungarian author and literary translator. His best-known work, The White King (2005) has been translated to at least 28 langugages.
He was born in Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) Transylvania, Romania. In 1988, his family moved to Hungary. He attended high school in the western Hungarian city of Szombathely, then college in Budapest, getting a degree in English and Philosophy. He has received various literary awards for his writings, such as the Sándor Bródy prize. His first novel, Genesis Undone, was published in 2002. He has become famous because of his second book, The White King, which received very favorable reviews from many influential newspapers, such as The New York Times. It is a collection of loosely connected stories told by an 11-year old boy waiting for his father to be released from politically motivated imprisonment.

Dragomán lives in Budapest with his wife and two children.