The Twilight Zone: A Novel

"In 1984, at the height of Augusto Pinochet’s repressive dictatorship, a Chilean secret policeman named Andrés Antonio Valenzuela Morales testified publicly to having tortured and disappeared people. The nameless narrator of Nona Fernández’s The Twilight Zone is 13 at the time and becomes “unhealthily obsess[ed]” with Valenzuela Morales; in adulthood, she sets out to write a novel about him. As her protagonist struggles with the limits of her own memory and imagination, Fernández asks the reader to confront not only the atrocities that Valenzuela Morales committed, but also the question that most haunts her narrator: What would she – or anyone – have done in his place?"