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Marcelo Figueras

Autor(a) de Kamchatka

11 Works 262 Membros 12 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Inclui os nomes: M. Figueras, FIGUERAS MARCELO

Obras por Marcelo Figueras

Kamchatka (2003) 193 exemplares
Het lied van leven en dood (2006) 44 exemplares
Der Spion der Zeit: Roman (2002) 5 exemplares
Aquarium (2009) 4 exemplares
Gus Weller Rompe El Molde (2007) 2 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Фигерас, Марсело
Data de nascimento
1962
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Argentinië
Local de nascimento
Argentina

Membros

Críticas

Kamchatka
Marcelo Figueras
Publicado: 2003 | 291 páginas
Novela Drama

Todos querríamos tener una armadura que nos proteja del dolor. Pero uno levanta una pared para protegerse de lo que viene de afuera y al final descubre que se ha quedado encerrado. Kamchatka es la última palabra que Harry escucha de labios de su padre. Aquel territorio fantástico e inaccesible, poblado de osos salvajes y con picos nevados envueltos en nubes de azufre, será el refugio donde ese chico de diez años se ocultará para curar sus heridas, para resistir. Para Harry, Kamchatka será su Avalón. De la mano de un niño obligado a contemplar el lado oscuro de la realidad, Marcelo Figueras nos lleva a recorrer el capítulo más aciago de nuestro pasado reciente. Este relato, poblado de personajes tiernos, cercanos y llenos de humor, es también una aventura: la de asomarse sobre el horizonte y descubrir que ninguna historia desaparece, simplemente cambia de género.… (mais)
 
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libreriarofer | 10 outras críticas | Jul 14, 2023 |
One of the best books I have read this year. The reality of this time in Argentina's recent history is always in your awareness, lurking and chilling, but the memory blurs this even more than the child's perspective. It's terribly sad, you know even before opening the cover what is coming and yet it isn't so pervasive that the rest of the story is overshadowed. Children are brilliant and resiliant, always shaped by the adult world but somehow finding themselves in spite of dirty wars and horrible human acts. Beautiful writing, funny, tender, detailed, tragic, mundane and yet charged. Read it!… (mais)
 
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Martialia | 10 outras críticas | Sep 28, 2022 |
This story of a 10 year old boy forced into hiding with his parents and younger brother during the “Dirty War” in Argentina is told in two voices - the young “Harry” and the older one recounting his story. The story is told in short episodes and much of the context of the story is ambiguous, just as it probably would have been to a young boy. He’s pulled out of school, given a new name, and moved out of the city in which he has grown up - all major upheavals which we follow him trying to make sense of, trying to assert order in a chaotic, uncertain world. What I loved most about this novel was how Figueras portrays “Harry” and his family - it’s a beautiful portrait of one’s relationships with parents and siblings, at times loving and warm and at others frustrating and incomprehensible. But it feels very real, and despite everything that they are going through, one feels how lucky they are.… (mais)
 
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katiekrug | 10 outras críticas | Jan 16, 2016 |
1976 in Argentinien. Die regimekritischen Eltern des Ich-Erzählers müssen nach dem Militärputsch untertauchen und verstecken sich mit ihren Kindern in einem Landhaus. Der Leser versteht natürlich, was hier abläuft und auch der mittlerweile erwachsene Erzähler weiß es nun. Das Kind Harry, wie er sich im Versteck nach dem Entfesslungskünstler Harry Houdini nennt (der ebenfalls ursprünglich einen anderen Namen hatte) muss sich hingegen vieles zusammenreimen und deuten. So kommt es zu herzzerreißenden Szenen, wenn die Eltern die Normalität aufrecht erhalten möchten und die Kinder sich wegen Kleinigkeiten beschweren, wo doch eigentlich die Existenz bedroht ist.
Das Buch wartet mit einer Fülle von hervorragenden Bildern und Metaphern auf, Houdini, die Kröten, Superman, Religion, das Risiko-Spiel und natürlich Kamtschatka, das uneinnehmbare Land. Die Personen sind absolut hervorragend dargestellt. Es ist ein großartiges, wunderbares Buch. Es ist tieftraurig (ich habe bereits wieder Tränen in den Augen) und doch hat es auch einen feinen Humor ("Das Leben ist ungerecht, aber es hat seine Momente").
… (mais)
 
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Wassilissa | 10 outras críticas | Aug 4, 2013 |

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Obras
11
Membros
262
Popularidade
#87,814
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
12
ISBN
40
Línguas
6
Marcado como favorito
1

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