Bone Fire

Praise for The White King : "Darkly beautiful... [Dragomán's] prose is scintillating and acrobatic, featuring serpentine sentences that bend with each turn of Djata's mind."- New York Times Book Review "Dragomán finds fresh details to describe the hardships and terrors of life under totalitarianism, with its food lines, patriotic films and disappearances. But Djata's story transcends the political. From its menacing opening to its heartbreaking final image, The White King , is stunning, a debut novel as assured as The Catcher In The Rye. "- Tennessean "Dark comedy and enveloping tragedy converge in this powerfully disturbing novel."- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Dragomán conveys [main character] Djata's fearful mental landscape with unadorned run-on sentences, skillfully building a totalitarian world simultaneously immersive and repulsive."- Publishers Weekly "Dragomán is sure-handed throughout his U.S. debut. . . The novel holds up on the strength of its characters and wealth of memorable scenes. [Belongs] on the same bookshelf as David Mitchell's Black Swan Green and Zsuzsa Bánk's The Swimmer ."- Library Journal " The White King recounts an imprisoned father's, a courageous mother's, and a clear-sighted boy's resistance to a loathsome dictatorship. Impassioned, wild, and tender, with boundlessly imaginative and richly detailed prose, it promises to be a lasting work. György Dragomán is a towering talent among young Hungarian writers."-George Konrád, author of A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life