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Kamchatka

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Fiction

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.

© 2011 Atlantic Books (Ebook): 9780857893611

Translators: Frank Wynne

Release date

Ebook: June 1, 2011

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