Name: Kamchatka
SKU: 4403940
Price: 770.00 TWD
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Author: Marcelo Figueras
ISBN: 9780802170873

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marcelo Figueras

Publisher

Pgw

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

311

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.85

ISBN13

9780802170873

Edition No.

Synopsis "Kamchatka "

In 1976 Buenos Aires, a ten-year-old boy lives in a world of school lessons and comic books, TV shows and games of Risk—a world in which men have superpowers and boys can conquer the globe on a rectangle of cardboard. But in his hometown, the military has just seized power, and amid a climate of increasing terror and intimidation, people begin to disappear without a trace.When his mother unexpectedly pulls him and his younger brother from school, she tells him they’re going on an impromptu family trip. But he soon realizes that this will be no ordinary holiday: his parents are known supporters of the opposition, and they are going into hiding. Holed up in a safe house in the remote hills outside the city, the family assumes new identities. The boy names himself Harry after his hero Houdini, and as tensions rise and the uncertain world around him descends into chaos, he spends his days of exile learning the secrets of escape.Kamchatka is the portrait of a child forced to square fantasy with a reality in which family, politics, history, and even time itself have become more improbable than any fiction. Told from the points of view of Harry as a grown man and as a boy, Kamchatka is an unforgettable story of courage and sacrifice, the tricks of time and memory, and the fragile yet resilient fabric of childhood.

Marcelo Figueras

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Marcelo Figueras (Buenos Aires, 1962) is an Argentine journalist and writer, author of short stories and novels.

He started in journalism working for various newspapers and magazines such as Clarín, El Periodista, or Humor. He was the director of the monthly magazine Caín, and has collaborated with Spanish press like El País. He combines his literary work with that of a film screenwriter (Burnt Money, Kamchatka, Dangerous Obsession, Rosario Tijeras, and The Widows of Thursdays). Some of his stories were published in anthologies like The Argentine Selection.

In 1992, he published his first novel: The Peronist Boy. Then came others, such as Kamchatka (2003), a finalist in the IFFP (the most important prize the English award to a writer of another language) and winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize, The Battle of Warming (2006) or Aquarium (2009).

He is not the classic writer who only feels comfortable in the silent stillness of libraries, he also likes adrenaline. He worked for the Spanish magazine Planeta Humano and in Israel covered the Palestinian conflict as a war correspondent.

His work has been translated into numerous languages.

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