Bibliograph

The twilight zone, a novel, Nona Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Type

Label

The twilight zone, a novel, Nona Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The twilight zone

Oclc number

1228513420

Responsibility statement

Nona Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Sub title

a novel

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

Table Of Contents

Entry zone -- Contact zone -- Ghost zone -- Escape zone

Target audience

general

Contributor