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A "novel gem" according to rock priestess Patti Smith, one of Nona Fernandez's most loyal readers. Chile 1980: Ten-year-old Estreya, daughter of an official of the Pinochet government, comes to study at a school in Santiago. He will mysteriously disappear some time later. Twenty-five years later, dreams and memories haunt her classmates, the generation that grew up in a country mired in terror. The story of a group of friends who played Space Invaders, the famous video game of the 1980s. They are still united by the fear of the Pinochet junta, the hazy memories of school years and the abrupt coming of age in an environment of brutal repression. With "Space Invaders" Fernandez reminds us that torturers and murderers were ordinary people who in the morning murdered innocent citizens and in the evening transformed into good family men. He also talks about the responsibility of citizens and their silence in the face of crimes, while emphasizing that political crimes also happen in democratic regimes. The first novel of the Chilean Nona Fernandez published in Greek. Fernandez is considered one of the leading writers of Latin American literature of the last thirty years. Among others, she had been warmly supported by another great Chilean writer, Roberto Bolaño.
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