Name: Space Invaders: A Novel
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Author: Nona Fernández
ISBN: 9781644450079

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nona Fernández

Translated by

Natasha Wimmer

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.5 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN13

9781644450079

Synopsis "Space Invaders: A Novel"

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s ChileSpace Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella's father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends--from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme--were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the "ghostly green bullets" they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.

Nona Fernández

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Nona Fernández (Nona Beatriz Fernández Silanes, Santiago de Chile, 1971) es escritora, dramaturga y guionista, una de las voces más incisivas de la literatura chilena contemporánea. Su obra se mueve entre la memoria personal y la memoria política, con una prosa que combina precisión narrativa, imaginación y una mirada crítica sobre los silencios del pasado reciente. Fernández no escribe para decorar la historia, sino para hurgarla: dictadura, infancia, miedo y ficción se cruzan con naturalidad incómoda, como debe ser.

Entre sus libros más conocidos se encuentran Marciano, Space Invaders y La dimensión desconocida, novela que consolidó su proyección internacional. Esta última le valió el Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, reconocimiento clave de la literatura en lengua española. En 2023 recibió además el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, confirmando una trayectoria que ha sabido unir riesgo formal, compromiso ético y una notable capacidad para convertir lo íntimo en una pregunta colectiva.

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