Synopsis
About Marcelo Figueras
See more books from this AuthorThis is why I believe that History is like an ocean into which rivers of individual histories flow…We are bound together in a web that spans all of space—all living creatures are connected in some intimate way: a web large enough to include all those alive today, but also all those of yesterday a...
| Read Full Review of KamchatkaSummary: Set in the late 1970s in Buenos Aires, the time of the brutal oppression, and disappearance of many young and talented people, this novel follows the fate of one young family, and their two sons, as they flee persecution and try to protect their - family.
Aug 19 2010 | Read Full Review of KamchatkaA horizon ringed by towering inaccessible peaks shrouded in sulphurous vapors.” In his imagination the fictional and the real Kamchatka merge into one, a safe and beautiful place where he will travel to when the time comes… The adult Harry is a constant companion voice to that of the ten-year-ol...
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Jun 13 2011 | Read Full Review of KamchatkaThat's the case with this book rug and although it's probably more of a show piece than a functional item for your home--assuming all the books were destined for an ill-fate anyway--it's actually kind of neat."
Apr 18 2011 | Read Full Review of KamchatkaKamchatka, a novel by Marcelo Figueras (translated by Frank Wynne), is a fictional first-person remembrance of childhood in Argentina during the Dirty War (1976-1983), a time of political instability and government-sponsored violence when thousands of civilians were “disappeared.” The story begi...
Jul 19 2011 | Read Full Review of KamchatkaIn the end, the grown-up Harry tells us to “love one another madly, the people you know, but more importantly the people who need love, because love is the only thing that is real, it is the light, everything else is darkness.” Editor’s note: On July 5, 2012, two of Argentina’s former military ...
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