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Told in eighteen chapters, which can also be read as individual stories, from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy awaiting his father's return from forced labor, The White King is a powerful novel about childhood in a dictatorial regime in Eastern Europe. Through the story of a boy and his rebellion, the history of internal rebellion and discontent in Eastern Europe in the 1980s is told. Full of humor, irony, and melancholy, The White King is a novel that, through its stylistic and narrative techniques, betrays a novelist of great momentum, one of the best contemporary young European writers. It has been translated into some twenty languages.