Winner of the 2012 Premio Valle Translation Prize
Shortlisted for the 2011 INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE
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.
Shortlisted for the 2011 INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE
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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Marcelo Figueras, born in Buenos Aires in 1962, is a writer and a screenwriter.
भाषा अंग्रेज़ी ● स्वरूप EPUB ● पेज 320 ● ISBN 9780857893611 ● फाइल का आकार 0.4 MB ● अनुवादक Frank Wynne ● प्रकाशक Atlantic Books ● शहर London ● देश GB ● प्रकाशित 2011 ● डाउनलोड करने योग्य 24 महीने ● मुद्रा EUR ● आईडी 2349082 ● कॉपी सुरक्षा सामाजिक DRM
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