The Twilight Zone: A Novel [Paperback]

* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature *

An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author ofSpace Invaders

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 Fern?ndezs mesmerizing and terrifying novelThe Twilight Zoneis a child when she first sees this mans face on the magazines 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, Fern?ndez follows the man who tortured people to places that archives cant reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novels 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 Zonepulls 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.

Nona Fern?ndezwas born in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and writer, and has published two plays, a collection of short stories, and six novels, includingSpace InvadersandThe Twilight Zone, which was awarded the Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz Prize.

Natasha Wimmeris the translator ofSpace Invadersby Nona Fern?ndez, as well as nine books by Roberto Bolano, includingThe Savage Detectivesand2666. Her most rló@