King Matt the First
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He paid no attention to what was going on around him. He had other things on his mind.
What had happened to Klu Klu? Where was Felek? Why had the sad king betrayed him? What would happen to his country? Would he see his father and mother again when the bullets took his life?
The city behind him now, he was tied to a post on the square near a freshly dug grave. But he was still calm and composed when the firing squad loaded their rifles and aimed them at him.
And he was just as calm when, at the last moment, he heard his reprieve: “Death sentence commuted to exile on a desert island.”
A car pulled up and took Matt back to prison. In one week’s time, he would be banished to the desert island.
I’ll tell you what happened to Matt on that desert island just as soon as I find out.
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First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Vintage
First published in Polish with the title Król Maciuś Pierwszy in 1923
Published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. in 1986
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