Publication date UK format 7/12/21 Audio time 6 hrs 40 min Book 232 Pages
I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review all my reviews are honest.
Synopsis
An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space 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 Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone 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 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. 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.
My Review
Unfortunately I didn't really connect with this book so I havegiventhe book 2.5 stars which I rounded up. I liked and enjoyed the sections described the true crimes but I struggle with the flow if this book. Maybe it was because it was wrote similar to the book with the same name and I haven't read nor seen the programmes. It could be that I didn't concentrate enough or that my autism just stopped me understand it because of the unusual writing style. I listened to the audiobook and did really like the narrator and her accent. I just think the flow of the book just didn't work for me. Remember I am just one person and my views will not be shared with others. I always suggest that you download a sample of the book to read and listen to yourself to see if it is right for you. And others seem to really like this book. Ilove true crime books but just couldn't get my head around this book.
Thank you to the author and publishing team for creating a book that I'm sure many true crime fans will love.
Sorry I ran out of time to research the where this book is available. I will try and update it if I can. Too many books to read atm.
Happy reading
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