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The Twilight Zone: A Novel Audiobook, by Nona Fernández Play Audiobook Sample

The Twilight Zone: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Raquel Beattie Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781696606820

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

8

Longest Chapter Length:

59:35 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

40:50 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

50:00 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

In Chile, in 1984, 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 protagonist of this, Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel, 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 wherein 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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“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

Quotes

  • “Blending fact and fiction, Fernández offers a social autopsy of the era.”

    — Bomb magazine
  • “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)

Awards

  • Finalist for the National Book Award for Translation

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About Nona Fernández

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.