Nona Fernández
Author of Space Invaders
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Works by Nona Fernández
Blanca. Emilia. Mara. 1 copy
Space Invaders 1 copy
The Twilight Zone: A Novel 1 copy
Fernandez Nona 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Fernández, Nona
- Legal name
- Fernández Silanes, Patricia Paola
- Birthdate
- 1971-06-23
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Chile
- Country (for map)
- Chile
- Birthplace
- Santiago, Chile
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- 15
- Members
- 374
- Popularity
- #64,496
- Rating
- 3.9
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- 15
- ISBNs
- 55
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- 8
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So in 1984 when a magazine cover pictured Andres Antonio Valenzuela Morales with the headline “I Tortured People” the narrator dove deep into the dark sack.
The Man Who Tortured People worked for the Pinochet regime – first helping the secret police capture the unfortunate accused and then being promoted to torture itself – after a day of which he would return home to his wife and family.
Thousands of ‘enemies of the regime’ including former Allende supporters, those whose politics were to to the left of the dictatorship and trade unionists disappeared to be killed or tortured. They disappeared into another dimension – much like the 5th dimension warping the boundaries of normalality in the popular American TV show The Twilight Zone.
How would I rate it? The author definitely achieved her goal. The writing and the Twilight Zone references make this memorable. It really illuminated the brutal Pinochet regime for me in a way that I’ll remember for a long time.
And yet, would I ever reread it? No. It’s after all a very painful tale of human suffering without a hopeful note except that Chile moved onward. I just can’t look in the bottom of the sack.… (more)