{"product_id":"the-twilight-zone-9781644450475","title":"The Twilight Zone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of \u003ci\u003eSpace Invaders \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow 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? \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNona Fernández \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and writer, and has published two plays, a collection of short stories, and six novels, including \u003ci\u003eSpace Invaders\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatasha Wimmer\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of \u003ci\u003eSpace Invaders \u003c\/i\u003eby Nona Fernández, as well as nine books by Roberto Bolano, including \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent translation is \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Guest \u003c\/i\u003eby Gabriela Ybarra.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50617448268050,"sku":"9781644450475","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6326f99-bde0-463d-b91e-74c8719eb7fe.jpg?v=1732518928","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-twilight-zone-9781644450475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}