Nona Fernandez was born in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress and writer, and has published two plays, a collection of short stories, and six novels, including Space Invaders and The Twilight Zone, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolano, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are Nona Fernandez's The Twilight Zone and Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.
"Another one-of-a-kind blend of the personal and political. . .
. Throughout, Fernandez's focus is on the connections between lost
memories, black holes and history's 'ghosts.' . . . Chile -- and
readers everywhere -- should be grateful."--Anderson Tepper,
The New York Times Book Review
"Together, Space Invaders, The Twilight Zone, and Voyager function
like the twin probes collecting information with every sensor at
their disposal, while simultaneously telling a story that says:
This is who we were; this is what it was like. To record your
experiences and tell your story, regardless of scale, serves as a
reckoning with a past that so many have tried to bury."--Amanda
Paige Inman, The Nation "'Who are we? Where are we going? Where
do we come from?' In finding poetic answers to those queries,
Fernandez documents the history of her homeland and aids her ailing
mother (whose epilepsy diagnosis brought additional complications),
all while musing on the intricacies of the universe. The result is
a moving reflection that's scientific, cerebral, and
spiritual."--Publishers Weekly "[Fernandez] is an expert at
weaving seemingly disparate topics together, at finding their
common threads. . . . Wherever this great writer (and translator!)
wants to take us, I'm there."--Katie Yee, Literary Hub "In
precise yet elegant prose that shirks melodrama, Fernandez renders
crisp and lingering images that orient us to the changing
surroundings of the book's steady orbit. . . . She circumvents the
oversentimentality that is so often the downfall of stories about
family and memory, by constructing a scope that expands and
contracts like breath in the body."--Claire Calderon, Los
Angeles Review of Books
"Past atrocities still threaten our present. The answer, Fernandez
suggests, is to document the ugliness and beauty of where we've
been without flinching--a message to anyone coming after. Hello,
here we are, don't forget us."--Morgan Graham, Chicago Review
of Books "[An] ambitious, often dazzling memoir. . . . Astronomy;
astrology; astrophysics; neuroscience -- each of these is
incorporated into a dizzying but sublime poetics that holds
Voyager together, like a constellation woven into the fabric of
the night sky."--Financial Times (UK) "Voyager is a
captivating memoir that not only offers a deeper understanding of
one of Chile's most acclaimed writers, but also a new insight into
the history and resilience of the Chilean people."--New
Statesman (UK)
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