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Letters From Latin America: February 14, 2022
Reviews of fiction by Nona Fernandez, short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu and poetry by Martin Rangel
Letters From Latin America: February 14, 2022
JOHN GREEN explores the argument that psychiatry needs to move away from the idea of just seeing and treating the individual
SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a polemic against “cleanfluencers” and considers radical alternatives to current inequalities of housework
RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
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IN THE aftermath of the bloody coup d’etat of September 1973 by general Augusto Pinochet against Chile’s democratically elected government of president Salvador Allende nearly 40,000 people were illegally detained and/or tortured in Chile and more than 3,000 were murdered or disappeared.
Chilean author Nona Fernandez’s masterful The Twilight Zone (Daunt Book Originals, £9.99) is a devastating attempt at giving voice to those victims of Pinochet’s regime.
Fernandez employs Rod Serling’s influential television series The Twilight Zone as one of the novel’s thematic nuclei. The book is divided into four sections or “zones,” where each character ends up dealing with often disturbing or unusual events. In each case, the experience is described as entering “the Twilight Zone,” often with a surprise ending or a point.
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