King Genghis I

"Sharp and packed with humor, King Genghis I deserves a crown." NRG

King Genghis I is a wild, biting satire, blending all-too-real scenarios with a dizzying adventure.

When life is dull and tinged in gray, when you're fired from your job and your girlfriend has just jumped ship—there's nothing like a thrilling adventure in a faraway land to elevate your spirits. Or at least so thought Turan—a New Yorker who travels from the heart of Western civilization to Genghistan—a small, hermetic Asian kingdom, ruled firmly but kindly by an affable, self-appointed benevolent dictator, who like other compassionate dictators is concerned principally with the well-being of his people.

The bond between the two men upsets the kingdom's conventional wisdom, alters fates, and changes Turan from a broken-hearted and gloomy young man to a love-struck hero. Because, apparently, there's nothing like the confines of a spunky little dictatorship to spark a new love.

King Genghis I is the first novel by Jonathan Yalon and his first English-translated book. His previous book was a collection of short stories called Beloved by the Girls. More recently, he published The Last Prince, a historical novel about Cyrus the Great.