# Kamchatka

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- Book: [Kamchatka](https://www.bookquiver.com/marcelo-figueras/kamchatka) ([Kamchatka.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/marcelo-figueras/kamchatka.md))
- Authors: [Marcelo Figueras](https://www.bookquiver.com/marcelo-figueras), [Frank Wynne](https://www.bookquiver.com/brian-garfield)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-827-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.