Kamchatka

In Buenos Aires, a ten-year-old boy lives in a world of school lessons and Superman comics, TV shows and games of Risk - a world in which men have superpowers and boys can conquer the globe on a square of cardboard. But in the outside world, a military junta have just taken power; and amid a political climate of fear and intimidation, people are beginning to disappear without trace... Set in Argentina during the bloody coup d'etat of 1976, this deeply moving novel is the story of a young boy forced to square fantasy against reality when reality and all its trappings - family, politics, history and time itself - are more improbable than any fiction.