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The Twilight Zone
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The Twilight Zone
'The Twilight Zone is wildly innovative, a major contributionto literature.' - The New York Times Book Review
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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. Our narrator is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover with the words 'I Tortured People', and his complicity in the worst crimes of the regime haunts her into adulthood.
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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The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández offers a haunting exploration of the routine nature of torture through vivid and intelligent prose. The writing is noted for its powerful sincerity and ability to evoke the terrifying reality of such experiences.
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ISBN: 9781914198212
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 July 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Audience: General / adult
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Pages: 232
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About the Author
Nona Fernández was born in Santiago, Chile. She is an actressand writer, and has published two plays, a collection ofshort stories, and six novels, including Space Invadersand The Twilight Zone, which was awarded the SorJuana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
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