--Short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
--An "O Magazine" Summer Reading Pick
"Funny, wistful, and wise . . . ["Kamchatka"] suggests that our stories do not end, that heroism lies in one's ability to change, and that we all need a place where we can retreat to before we can learn to face the world again." --Tiffany Sun, "O Magazine"
"[A] generous, affecting novel."--"The New Yorker"
"Subtle . . . Brilliantly observed, heartrending."--"Financial Times"
"[Figueras] vividly evokes a child's reaction to a world beleaguered by violence. . . . [A] hopeful message about the healing powers of imagination and love."--"The New York Times"
"Haunting . . . Warmhearted . . . [Kamchatka] unfolds with disarming simplicity. . . . Bursting with good humor, with a bittersweet, melancholy shadow, Figueras's superb novel amply illustrates that 'laughing and crying at the same time is something life teaches you without you even noticing.'"--Shelf Awareness
"Interesting and insightful . . . Engrossing, often funny, and very, very unsettling."--"The Brooklyn Rail"
""Kamchatka" is not a nostalgic book. Its narration is unconstrained and light, entwining and sympathetic. . . . Read it, and buy yourself a board game of Risk."--Bookslut
"Stark and immediate, more moving because it is presented without sentimentality . . . [Written] with wry comedy . . . the tenderness breaks your heart."--"Booklist "
"A masterpiece . . . Written in beautiful prose."--"De Telegraaf" (Netherlands)
"Interesting and insightful . . . Engrossing, often funny, and very, very unsettling."--"The Brooklyn Rail "
"Figueras writes with power and insight about the ways in which a child uses imagination to make sense of terrifying and baffling reality."--"The Times "(UK)
"Tender, severe, moving, elegiac."--"El Pais" (Spain)
"Brilliant."--"The Independent"
"Like Carlos Eire's wonderfully buoyant memoir of pr
