Space Invaders E-Book

Nona Fernández

• Herausgeber: Daunt Books
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions, a group of friends look back on their childhood. Their thoughts and dreams circle one old classmate: Estrella González Jepsen, who one day simply disappeared.Estrella's father, it transpires, was a ranking government officer implicated in the Pinochet regime. The question of what became of Estrella haunts her former friends. They catch glimpses of her braids, hear echoes of her voice, read old letters. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances and a trip to the beach. Growing up, they were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them but powerless to resist or confront it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the ghostly green bullets they fi red in their favourite video game.Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. Prose of astonishing beauty is intricately layered to hypnotic, mesmerising effect, as Fernández summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.

Leseprobe

‘A small jewel of a book.’ Patti Smith

‘Reads like a nightmare wrapped inside a campfire tale; a chorus of whispers heard from a dark room in the dead of night, each one a transmission from Chile’s hell.’ Rob Doyle

‘Both haunted by the past and completely baffled by it, Space Invaders wonderfully and fearfully captures a particular moment of a history that will always be with its narrator; and always, now, with me.’ Jon McGregor

‘An absolute gem – a book of uncommon depth, precise in its language, unsparing in its emotion, unflinching … truly unique.’ Daniel Alarcón

‘As addictive as its video game namesake … Each [chapter] slides by quickly, but lingers like a dream.’ NPR.com

‘Perhaps the hippest Chilean writer since Roberto Bolaño … Short, stylish, and engrossing, this is a stellar book from a writer who should be on your radar.’ GQ

Selected works by Nona Fernández

The Twilight Zone

For Estrella González J.

Contents

Title PageDedicationEpigraphFirst LifeI II III IV V VI VII Second Life I II III IV V VI VII VIII Third Life I II III IV V VI Game Over I II III Acknowledgements A Note on the Font About the AuthorsCopyright