The Twilight Zone

A Novel

Narrated by Raquel Beattie
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Pub Date 07 Dec 2021 | Archive Date 07 Dec 2021

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Description

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.

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...


A Note From the Publisher

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature


Advance Praise

The Twilight Zone is wildly innovative, a major contribution to literature.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Fernández has found an answer to an urgent question: making art is inadequate always, but powerful nonetheless.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine

“There is an incantatory quality to Nona Fernández’s The Twilight Zone, a feeling of walking, as though under a spell, and then accidentally tripping into the murky unknown." ―The Paris Review

The Twilight Zone is wildly innovative, a major contribution to literature.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Fernández has found an answer to an urgent question: making art is inadequate always, but...


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ISBN 9781696606820
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