Name: The Twilight Zone: A Novel
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Author: Nona Fernández
ISBN: 9781644450475

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nona Fernández

Translated by

Natasha Wimmer

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.8 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781644450475

Synopsis "The Twilight Zone: A Novel "

* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * 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.

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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