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The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone: A Novel | Nona Fernández
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An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders 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 The Twilight Zone 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. How do crimes vanish in plain sight? How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by and take for granted? The Twilight Zone pulls us into the dark portals of the past, reminding us that the work of the writer in the face of historical erasure is to imagine so deeply that these absences can be, for a time, spectacularly illuminated.
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KateD1
The Twilight Zone: A Novel | Nona Fernández
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Before this book, I had no understanding or real knowledge of the oppressive Pinochet dictatorship that ruled Chile throughout the 80s. How the author compares what happened during that time to the show The Twilight Zone and relates it to current events is interesting. It was absolutely an interesting read! #thetwilightzone #chile #translated

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stretchkev
The Twilight Zone: A Novel | Nona Fernández
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A beautifully written and harrowing novel that focuses on how the people that suffered under the Pinochet regime; the victims, the community, and the victimizers, all those who ended up broken. It's an impressive book about coming to terms with unspeakable events.

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Hooked_on_books
The Twilight Zone: A Novel | Nona Fernández
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Fernández captures life under Pinochet in Chile by following a woman making a documentary focusing on one of the enforcers. She really captures the reality for the average person during the time while keeping the story both intimate and sweeping. I‘m not sure how she does it, but I think she‘s fantastic. I hope more of her writing is translated, as I‘ll read anything she writes.

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