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In the forecourt of a petrol station outside of Buenos Aires, a father says goodbye to his son: 'Kamchatka,' he whispers softly into his ear. And then they part, forever.
A ten-year-old boy lives in world of Superman comics and games of Risk - a world in which men have superpowers and boys can conquer the globe on a board game. But in the outside world, a military junta have taken power; and amid a political climate of fear and intimidation, people are beginning to disappear without trace...
Kamchatka is a heartbreaking novel; set in Argentina during the bloody coup d'etat of 1976, it tells the enchanting story of a young boy trying to make sense of a world during a time of extraordinary upheaval.
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`Figueras - a bestseller across the Spanish-speaking world - writes with power and insight about the ways in which a child uses imagination to make sense of a terrifying and baffling reality.' --Kate Saunders, The Times
`In this brilliant coming- of-age novel, Marcelo Figueras does not offer a conventional portrait of Argentina's brutal past... he covers a variety of subjects, from the life- changing to the banal, gradually drawing them together. By the end, we realised the hardest lesson Harry has learned is how to survive horror and bear loss.' --Independent
'Both sorrow and exile permeate this brilliantly observed, heartrending novel'
--Financial Times
'Figueras - a bestseller across the Spanish-speaking world - writes with power and insight about the ways in which a child uses imagination to make sense of a terrifying and baffling reality.' --Kate Saunders, The Times
'Both sorrow and exile permeate this brilliantly observed, heartrending novel' --Financial Times
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`Figueras - a bestseller across the Spanish-speaking world - writes with power and insight about the ways in which a child uses imagination to make sense of a terrifying and baffling reality.' --Kate Saunders, The Times
`In this brilliant coming- of-age novel, Marcelo Figueras does not offer a conventional portrait of Argentina's brutal past... he covers a variety of subjects, from the life- changing to the banal, gradually drawing them together. By the end, we realised the hardest lesson Harry has learned is how to survive horror and bear loss.' --Independent
'Both sorrow and exile permeate this brilliantly observed, heartrending novel'
--Financial Times
'Figueras - a bestseller across the Spanish-speaking world - writes with power and insight about the ways in which a child uses imagination to make sense of a terrifying and baffling reality.' --Kate Saunders, The Times
'Both sorrow and exile permeate this brilliantly observed, heartrending novel' --Financial Times
Marcelo Figueras, born in Buenos Aires in 1962, is a writer and a screenwriter.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1843548275
- ISBN 13 9781843548270
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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