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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 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.



An urgent, humorous and melancholy portrait of a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, The White King introduces a stunning new voice in contemporary fiction.