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The Leonard Lopate Show

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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Posted by: w
May 02, 2008 - 11:02AM
NYC

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?

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Posted by: geoffry
May 02, 2008 - 01:13PM
brooklyn

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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