{"id":168,"date":"2008-01-16T23:44:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=168&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2008-01-16T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:54:39","slug":"starred-review-in-the-kirkus-review-for-the-white-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Starred Review in the Kirkus Review for The White King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current issue of the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/kirkusreviews\/index.jsp\">Kirkus Review<\/a> has some nice things to say about The White King.<\/p>\n<p>The book got a starred review, with an intelligent summary of\u00a0the\u00a0plot\u00a0which\u00a0concludes\u00a0in:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The novel details almost two years in the life of Djata after his father\u2019s disappearance, years in which children turn almost as brutal toward each other (with a Lord of the Flies morality) as teachers, coaches and figures of authority are toward the children. One vignette has them playing soccer on a radioactive field; another has them playing war games that risk the fatalities of a real war. Then there\u2019s the appearance of the mysterious Pickax, a man whose face has been disfigured beyond recognition and who has some seemingly mysterious powers. Is he Djata\u2019s father? Does he know the fate of Djata\u2019s father?<br \/>\nDark comedy and enveloping tragedy converge in this powerfully disturbing novel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0the\u00a0plot\u00a0which\u00a0concludes\u00a0in: &#8220;The novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kritikak","category-reviews","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}