In this book you will be led to a place you haven't been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog (or is he?) to a wasteland beside the motorway called Saint Valery. Here, at the end of the twentieth century, amongst smashed lorries, old boilers and broken washing machines, live Liberto, Malak, Jack, Corinna, Danny, Anna, Joachim, Saul, Alfonso, and Vico and Vica. 'King' is at once a furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience.