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The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature *<br><br>An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of <i>Space Invaders<br><br></i></b>It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel <i>The Twilight Zone </i>is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the “man who tortured people” to places that archives can’t reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel’s title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime.<br><br>How do crimes vanish in plain sight? How d
Who reads The Twilight Zone?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781644451434
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
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