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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. 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.

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Blending fact and fiction, Fernandez offers a social autopsy of the era. -- Bomb magazine Fernandez has developed a reputation for composing unsettling portraits of life during Chile's brutal military dictatorship, with stories that venture beyond the stiff and incomplete histories recorded by truth and reconciliation commissions. -- Vulture Fernandez has found an answer to an urgent question: making art is inadequate always, but powerful nonetheless. -- Harper's This disturbing story of a repentant man makes for a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Blending fact and fiction, Fernández offers a social autopsy of the era. -- ""Bomb magazine"" Fernández has developed a reputation for composing unsettling portraits of life during Chile's brutal military dictatorship, with stories that venture beyond the stiff and incomplete histories recorded by truth and reconciliation commissions. -- ""Vulture"" Fernández has found an answer to an urgent question: making art is inadequate always, but powerful nonetheless. -- ""Harper's"" This disturbing story of a repentant man makes for a gripping psychological game of cat and mouse. -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)""

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Nona Fernández is an actress, screenwriter, and the award-winning author of several novels, including Mapocho, Fuenzalida, Space Invaders, Voyager, and The Twilight Zone. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize and the Altazor Award, among other honors. Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolaño's 2666, for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives. She lives in New York. Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolaño's 2666, for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives. She lives in New York. Raquel Beattie has narrated over fifty books from her home studio. She speaks conversational Spanish and is comfortable with beginning French. She can do a range of voices and select accents, including American Southern and Mexican. She loves spending time with her husband and three kids, getting outside in nature, hanging with friends, dark humor, and eating good food. I'm not a foodie per se, but I really appreciate simple and tasty meals, she says, as she goes to Whataburger for the hundredth time.

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