Kamchatka

Informationen zum Autor Marcelo Figueras! born in Buenos Aires in 1962! is a writer and a screenwriter. Klappentext '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 '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 Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Marcelo Figueras, Marcelo (author) Figueras
• Assisted by: Frank Wynne (Translation), Frank (Translator) Wynne (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9781843548270
• ISBN: 978-1-84354-827-0
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Fantasy / General, Narrative theme: Politics, Fiction: general and literary, War, combat and military adventure fiction