Bøger af Nona Fernández

"Bogen giver en klump i halsen og er næsten umulig at lægge fra sig" - Berlingske"Bør blive en klassiker" – El País"Vildt innovativ" – The New York TimesChile, 1984, Pinochet-diktaturet. Et medlem af det hemmelige politi opsøger en journalist og siger: "Jeg vil fortælle dig om ting jeg har gjort." Det bliver begyndelsen på et 30-årigt kald som vidne og et liv på flugt.Fortælleren i Nona Fernández' fascinerende og skræmmende roman er barn, da hun første gang ser denne mands ansigt under overskriften 'Jeg torturerede'. Som voksen, som en slags efterretningsagent fra fremtiden, trækker fortælleren sin læser gennem en portal ind til steder, arkiverne ikke kan nå. Ind i historiens skumle twilight zone.En doku-litterær roman om nakkeskud og afklippede fingre, ravne og rotter og en ungdom med brosten i hænderne, tændte lys på fortovet og billeder af savnede fædre og sønner trykket mod brystet. Romanen blev i 2021 shortlisted til den amerikanske National Book Award for Translated Literature og er solgt til 14 sprog.

A startling book-length essay, at once grand and intimate, from National Book Award finalist Nona Fernández.Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls and inability to remember what preceded them. As the author stares at the image of her mother's brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical signals shown on the screen resemble the night sky.Inspired by the mission of the Voyager spacecrafts, Fernández begins a process of observation and documentation. She describes a recent trip to the remote Atacama desert-one of the world's best spots for astronomical observation-to join people who, like her, hope to dispel the mythologized history of Chile's new democracy. Weaving together the story of her mother's illness with story of her country and of the cosmos itself, Fernández braids astronomy and astrology, neuroscience and memory, family history and national history into this brief but intensely imagined autobiographical essay. Scrutinizing the mechanisms of personal, civic, and stellar memory, she insists on preserving the truth of what we've seen and experienced, and finding ways to recover what people and countries often prefer to forget.In Voyager, Fernández finds a new container for her profound and surreal reckonings with the past. One of the great chroniclers of our day, she has written a rich and resonant book.