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Kamchatka

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
312 Seiten
Englisch
Grove Atlanticerschienen am03.05.2011
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.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextIn 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-8021-7087-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2011
Erscheinungsdatum03.05.2011
Seiten312 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 144 mm, Höhe 210 mm, Dicke 29 mm
Gewicht393 g
Artikel-Nr.12839694
Rubriken
GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Kritik
--Short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize--An "O Magazine" Summer Reading Pick "Funny, wistful, and wise . . . ["Kamchatka"] suggests that our stories do not end, that heroism lies in one's ability to change, and that we all need a place where we can retreat to before we can learn to face the world again." --Tiffany Sun, "O Magazine" "[A] generous, affecting novel."--"The New Yorker" "Subtle . . . Brilliantly observed, heartrending."--"Financial Times" "[Figueras] vividly evokes a child's reaction to a world beleaguered by violence. . . . [A] hopeful message about the healing powers of imagination and love."--"The New York Times" "Haunting . . . Warmhearted . . . [Kamchatka] unfolds with disarming simplicity. . . . Bursting with good humor, with a bittersweet, melancholy shadow, Figueras's superb novel amply illustrates that 'laughing and crying at the same time is something life teaches you without you even noticing.'"--Shelf Awareness "Interesting and insightful . . . Engrossing, often funny, and very, very unsettling."--"The Brooklyn Rail" ""Kamchatka" is not a nostalgic book. Its narration is unconstrained and light, entwining and sympathetic. . . . Read it, and buy yourself a board game of Risk."--Bookslut "Stark and immediate, more moving because it is presented without sentimentality . . . [Written] with wry comedy . . . the tenderness breaks your heart."--"Booklist " "A masterpiece . . . Written in beautiful prose."--"De Telegraaf" (Netherlands) "Interesting and insightful . . . Engrossing, often funny, and very, very unsettling."--"The Brooklyn Rail " "Figueras writes with power and insight about the ways in which a child uses imagination to make sense of terrifying and baffling reality."--"The Times "(UK) "Tender, severe, moving, elegiac."--"El Pais" (Spain) "Brilliant."--"The Independent" "Like Carlos Eire's wonderfully buoyant memoir of prmehr

Autor

Born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, Marcelo Figueras is an award-winning journalist, screenwriter, and novelist. He has also been a war correspondent and singer. Figueras makes daily contributions to the Spanish-language literary blog El Boomeran: www.elboomeran.com. His books have previously been translated into French, German, Dutch, Polish and Russian; This is his first novel to be published in English.