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With so many contenders for the throne of Kastiel, the choice lies in the hands of the oppressed. The Wächter soldiers threw a coup against the Kastian royals, killing the entire family - or so they thought. Seventeen years later, Prince Jekuthiel prepares to reclaim his father's throne. However, an imposter pretending to be his sister has the same idea. To make matters worse, there may be foreign powers stirring. Who will survive to rule t...

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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 ...

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An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space InvadersIt is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazine's cover ...

A leading Latin American writer effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship in Chile. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.