Discovering and losing the innocence of childhood

Kamchatka. Marcelo Figueras, Atlantic Books; €10.21

By filtering events through recollections and reflections of the older Harry, the novel achieves a brutally honest portrait of the violence and fear which destroyed so many Argentinean families

“I KNEW we were in some kind of danger,” says 10-year-old Harry, protagonist of this Argentinean coming-of-age novel, set during the country’s bloody coup d’etat of 1976.