The New York Times reviews The White King
In The New York Times, Danielle Trusonni reviews The White King In “History and Utopia,” the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran speculated about whether it’s “easier to confect a utopia than…
The Washington Post reviews The White King
In The Washington Post Ron Charles looks at The White King: "Dragomán allows himself some room to experiment with tone and style, including a couple of oddly funny episodes and…
The San Francisco Chronicle on The White King
The San Francisco Chronicle looks at The White King. "In Hungarian writer György Dragomán's harrowing novel "The White King," set in a nameless place understood to be 1980s Romania, we…
Review in The Tennessean
The Tennessean reviews The White King: "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…
The Harvard Crimson on The White King
The Harvard Crimson looks at The White King. "This disconnect from their lived reality and the one the reader sees in the novel seems surreal. Dragomán is able to straddle…
The Entertainment Weekley on The White King
A brief mention of The White King in Entertainment Weekley: "In a rushing stream of lucid language, 11-year-old Djata narrates a coming-of-age tale from somewhere behind the Iron Curtain, sometime…
The New York Sun on The White King
In the April 16 issue of the New York Sun Benjamin Lytal takes a look at The White King: "Though the episodes that make up “The White King” all share…
Audio-review of The White King in Radio New Zeland
Louise O'Brien reviewed the book in a show called Nine to Noon Books on Radio New Zeland. She likes a book quite a bit. You can listen to her here.
Reviews in Marie Claire and The Sun
Tannaz Allaway in the Marie Claire about The White King: Through a sequence of vaguely connected episodes of boyhood, Dragoman’s award-winning second novel (and his first to be published in English) blends humour, innocence and terror…
A Brutal Boyhood – The White King reviwed in The Glasgow Herald
James Proteus in The Glasgow Herald calls the book a "darkly fascinating examination of the contrast between childhood innocence and a totalitarian regime. " The review is not online, but here is a longer quote: The novel is constructed in short chapters that operate as self-contained…
Reviews of The White King in The Independent and The Financial Times
In The Independent Paul Bailey calls The White King "a chilling novel" and "a most impressive debut". The full text is here. A brief review of the book in The…
Charles Fernyhough reviews The White King in the Sunday Telegraph
In the Sunday Telegraph Charles Fernyhough takes a closer look at The White King. "Djata's childhood comes alive through its carefully detailed physicality. Dragomán is superb at the paraphernalia of…
The White King reviewed in The Times by Tom Gatti
Tom Gatti has some very nice things to say about The White King in The Times. When my old English teacher tried to teach me the language back in Transylvania,…
Booktrust Review and Interview
James Smith from Booktrust reviews The White King on the site: "György Dragomán has succeeded in conjuring up not only a realistic voice for his young protagonist but also a…
The Chain of Cruelty – Paul Binding reviews The White King for The Times Literary Supplement
In the current issue (January 17, 2008) of The Times Literary Supplement, Paul Binding reviews The White King. “Between these first and last chapters come sixteen vignettes, seemingly free-standing, and…
Starred Review in the Kirkus Review for The White King
The current issue of the Kirkus Review has some nice things to say about The White King. The book got a starred review, with an intelligent summary of the plot which concludes in: "The novel…
The White King reviewed in The Mail on Sunday and in the Metro
The Mail on Sunday calls The White King a "coming of age tale with a difference". The review concludes: "Glimpsed as it is imperfectly, through the eyes of a child,…
Tales of lunacy from the end of the world – Tibor Fischer reviews The White King for the Guardian
Tibor Fischer reviews The White King in the Guardian. "Dragomán's work is an intriguing mixture. The White King is his second novel, published in 2005, but the first to appear…
Review in The Publisher’s Weekly
The White King was reviewed in The Publishers Weekly. Here is an excerpt. "Dragomán draws from his eastern bloc upbringing in this brutal, fragmentary novel. Djata is an 11-year-old boy…