Where The Orphans Of The Power Die book launch — 24 February 2026

Where The Orphans Of The Power Die is a political thriller that, through the story of a missing teenage boy, takes us through a city’s silenced past, its political manoeuvring, and the point at which the search for truth becomes a matter of life and death. The novel is not only a tense, gripping story, but also a merciless portrait of an era — one that shows how, in the shadow of power, everyone eventually becomes an orphan.

“David has managed to create a story that speaks to a significant section of society, a group whom every government of the day regards as exploitable both economically and politically. People are left to fend for themselves and receive support from nowhere… The work is a political thriller that offers a remarkably strong critique of the present system.” — Blikk

“The host of the evening was Ott Anna, who said during the conversation that Dorosz ‘can do something that no one else in contemporary Hungarian literature can’. She emphasised that the author’s complex, morally nuanced characters are at once personal and socially resonant, and that his stories are not only compelling, but also precise snapshots of an era.” — Kultúrszíntér

“In my view, David Dorosz’s two novels should be compulsory reading in secondary-school history lessons, so that from We All Leave students can understand how the NER works, and from Where The Orphans Of The Power Die they can also better understand what was at stake in the political transition and how the nearly four decades since then have unfolded.” — Ott Anna

An evening where literature, public life and personal stories met. Thought-provoking conversations, a reading, and a novel that does not let go. That was the launch of Where The Orphans Of The Power Die.

Special thanks to the evening’s host, Ott Anna, for the conversation, and to Alexandra Borbély, who read excerpts from the novel that cut straight to the bone.

You can order the book on Cser Kiadó’s website, or find it in bookshops.