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Fernández, Nona, 1971-
Subjects
State-sponsored terrorism -- Fiction.
Victims of terrorism -- Fiction.
Torturers -- Fiction.
Chile -- Fiction.
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Fernández, Nona, 1971-
State-sponsored terrorism -- Fiction.
Victims of terrorism -- Fiction.
Torturers -- Fiction.
Chile -- Fiction.
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The twilight zone /
Nona
Fernández
; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
by
Fernández
,
Nona
,
1971-
Graywolf Press, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION FER
Subjects
State-sponsored terrorism -- Fiction.
Victims of terrorism -- Fiction.
Torturers -- Fiction.
Chile -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781644450475 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Dimensión
desconocida
.
English
Description:
219 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in 2016 as La
dimensión
desconocida
by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Santiago"--T.p. verso.
In
English
, translated from the Spanish.
Contents:
Entry zone -- Contact zone -- Ghost zone -- Escape zone.
Summary:
"It's 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."--Amazon.
Genre:
Spanish fiction -- Translations into
English
.
Literary fiction.
Other authors:
Wimmer, Natasha.
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