{"id":181,"date":"2008-02-29T03:33:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-02-29T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:33:44","slug":"a-brutal-boyhood-the-white-king-reviwed-in-the-glasgow-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"A Brutal Boyhood &#8211; The White King reviwed in The Glasgow Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Proteus in The Glasgow Herald\u00a0calls\u00a0the\u00a0book\u00a0a\u00a0<em>&#8220;darkly fascinating examination of the contrast between childhood innocence and a totalitarian regime.\u00a0&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0review\u00a0is\u00a0not\u00a0online,\u00a0but\u00a0here\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0longer\u00a0quote:<\/p>\n<p><em>The novel is constructed in short chapters that operate as self-contained stories, but with the mystery and tragedy of Djata\u2019s missing father the constant theme. The book\u2019s painful appeal is that the boys\u2019 adventures are enjoyable, even amusing on the surface, partly due to the sardonic misobservations of the child \u2013 \u201cit had been a lot warmer ever since that atomic powerplant accident we weren\u2019t allowed to talk about\u201d \u2013 and partly because it is just fun to see boys being boys; hunting for treasure, sneaking into cinemas, and thinking about girls. But below the surface always remains our awareness that this innocence cannot survive the regime and that there will be no happy ending.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Djata\u2019s is a convincing and powerful voice and The White King a moving insight into a bizarre, tragic period of Europe\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Proteus in The Glasgow Herald\u00a0calls\u00a0the\u00a0book\u00a0a\u00a0&#8220;darkly fascinating examination of the contrast between childhood innocence and a totalitarian regime.\u00a0&#8220; The\u00a0review\u00a0is\u00a0not\u00a0online,\u00a0but\u00a0here\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0longer\u00a0quote: The novel is constructed in short chapters that operate as self-contained [&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-181","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\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}