Space Invaders: A Novel

"The Chilean novelist and playwright Nona Fernández’s Space Invaders, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is as addictive as the video game whose name it borrows. Space Invaders blinks by in short, spare chapters, each narrated communally by a group of primary school classmates who grew up during Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing dictatorship. Their valiant, doomed efforts to make sense of the political violence they witnessed in childhood are moving and haunting and will linger long after the book is done."