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Was R252.95Now R177.07(eB 1771)
Delivery time: 24hr delivery in main centres: Order before 12h00 Monday - Friday, to receive the next working day Country: United KingdomFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co Inc.Translator: Paul OlchvaryISBN: 9780385613439 Publication date: January 2008 Weight: 452g Pages: 320
White King
Author: Gyorgy Dragoman
Was R252.95 Now R177.07
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 is finally sent home again. In the mean time, Djata lives out a life of adventure. He plays wargames in flaming wheat fields; and, hunts for gold in abandoned claymines. 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 is finally sent home again. In the mean time, 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. With the White King, Gyorgy Dragoman won the prestigious Sandor Marai prize. An urgent, humorous and melancholy picture of a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, it introduces a stunning new voice in contemporary fiction.
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