{"product_id":"the-twilight-zone-nona-fern-ndez-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 Fern疣dez'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, Fern疣dez 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nona Fern疣dez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164445047X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2020 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2021 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2021","brand":"Nona Fern疣dez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055106453759,"sku":"9781644450475","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c250f86-ba11-4b98-bc53-a1007c2dd99a.jpg?v=1685033825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-twilight-zone-nona-fern-ndez-9781644450475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}