The White King

In the meantime, Djata lives out a life of adventure, playing war games in flaming wheatfields and watching porn in the back room at the cinema. But lurking beneath his rebel boyhood, pulling at his heartstrings, is the continued absence of his father. When he finally uncovers the truth, he risks losing his childhood forever. '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' 'It's the Just William books teamed up with Nineteen Eighty-Four; a superb novel about childhood, schooldays and gang fights... sums up the lunacy of Ceausescu's regime better than anything else I've read' 'Disturbing, compelling, beautifully translated'