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An Eastern Bloc Childhood
Hungarian author Gyorgy Dragoman’s new novel, The White King, is about an 11-year old boy whose childhood in an eastern bloc country is extremely difficult – his father has been sent to a forced labor camp, his mother is powerless to help him, and his grandfather is a raging alcoholic.
Events: Gyorgy Dragoman will be speaking on a PEN Festival panel entitled Leaving Home
Friday, May 2 at 5:30 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street (between 5th and Madison Avenues)
Free and open to the public; however, reservations are required. Call (212) 319-5300x222 or email reservations@acfny.org.
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What an exquisitely written book. Its beautiful run-on sentences remind me of the style employed by the contemplative Jose Saramago, the failure-obsessed Thomas Bernhard, and the (almost) jolly Bohumil Hrabal, the latter especially, who also wrote about absurd situations in a vast and destructive regime. Can you please ask which writers had influenced Dragoman in shaping his style?
On a different subject, I'm so IMPRESSED that the author is conducting a radio interview with his stutter. I'm a stutterer myself and have resisted public speaking but Gyorgy has given me a new found confidence.
Thank you.
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