21/52 Marcelo Figueras - Kamchatka (2003)
Language: Deutsch. English version here.
Shortly after the military coup in Buenos Aires in 1976, a regimecritical lawyer takes shelter in a remote country estate. A dangerous act of survival for the parents turns into a great adventure for their two sons, with secret codes and double lives.
Not the bloody coup is the centre of this novel, but the changes caused by the dictatorship. Figueras tells the threatening story from the eyes of his 10-year-old son, nicknamed Harry. For him, the situation turns into a real life game of Risk, in which the family has to conquer the world for themselves. There is always hope, because the small land of Kamchatka can defend itself against the armies of the enemy.