Kamchatka. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Kamchatka.
• Further Information: Note: Marcelo Figueras ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
• Other Names: Figueras, Marcelo, 1962-
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; First Period: Biology; 1. The Last Word; 2. All Things Remote; 3. I am Left with no Uncles; 4. An Inconvenient Patriarch; 5. A Scientific Digression; 6. Fantastic Voyage; 7. Enter Bertuccio; 8. The Principle Of Necessity; 9. The Rock; 10. A Short Family Parenthesis; 11. Let's Go; 12. The Citrën; 13. Enter The Midget; 14. Blind in the Face Of Danger; 15. What I Knew; 16. Enter David Vincent; 17. Night Falls; 18. Sirens; Second Period: Geography; 19. 'Ours was the Marsh Country'; 20. The Swimming Pool; 21. The Mysterious House. 22. I Find Treasure23. Houdini Escapes . . .; 24. Fugitives; 25. We Assume New Identities; 26. Strategy And Tactics; 27. We Find a Dead Body; 28. A Peaceable Interregnum; 29. We Find Ourselves Alone; 30. A Decision At Dawn; 31. A Foolproof Plan; 32. Cyrus and the River; 33. What they knew; 34. The Matilde Permutation; 35. The Experiment Fails; 36. Monsters; 37. The Ice Maiden; 38. The Deadly Surprise; 39. Accident And Emergency; Third Period: Language; 40. Enter Lucas; 41. A House Possessed; 42. In Praise Of Words; 43. Lucas Has a Girlfriend; 44. I am Found out. 45. I am Delivered up to a Tribe of Cannibals46. Among The Beasts; 47. I Learn To Breathe; 48. An Unfinished Song; 49. In Which I Discover that Someone I love very much is not Perfect; 50. Shame; 51. In Which I Become a Man of Mystery; 52. Mister Corpuscle; 53. The Fortress of Solitude; 54. This Year's Model; 55. I Find Myself in the Middle of A 3-D Movie; 56. Not Single Spies, but in Battalions; 57. A Piece of bad News Turns out to be Good; 58. A Picnic In The Rain; 59. The Most Treacherous Season; 60. Heaven Helps me Hold My Breath; 61. On the art of the Milanesa. 62. WE Receive An Announcement63. The Right Questions; Fourth Period: Astronomy; 64. Dorrego; 65. In Which we Visit the Farm and I become a Foreign Correspondent; 66. The Larvae; 67. Grandma's Time Machine; 68. A Trip To Atlantis; 69. In which I Play the spy and Hear Something I Shouldn't; 70. Of The Stars; 71. In Which we Contemplate the Stars and Discover More Things than can be Contained Within this Chapter Title; Fifth Period: History; 72. Concerning (Un)Happy Endings; 73. Concerning The Best Stories; 74. In which we Return Home, to Find Nothing But Darkness. 75. In Which I make my Debut as an Escape Artist76. In Which we Play Risk and I turn the Tables -- Well, Almost; 77. A Vision; 78. In which Houses Crumble; 79. The Principle of Necessity II; 80. In which some Loose ends are Tied Up; 81. Kamchatka; Acknowledgements.
• Publisher Details: London : Atlantic Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Subjects: 863.7; FICTION / War & Military; Boys -- Fiction; Parent and child -- Argentina -- Fiction; Disappeared persons -- Argentina -- Fiction; FICTION -- General; FICTION -- Historical; Boys; Disappeared persons; Parent and child; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Fantasy / General; FICTION / Political; Argentina -- History -- Coup d'état, 1976 -- Fiction; Argentina -- History -- Dirty War, 1976-1983 -- Fiction; Argentina; Electronic books; Fiction; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857893611; 0857893610
• Related ISBNs: 184887443X; 9781848874435; 9781843548263; 1843548267
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.