Daunt Books

‘A small jewel of a book . . . Fernández’s picturesque language and dream-like atmosphere is well worth being invaded by. A book to slip in the pocket to read and reread.’ —Patti Smith Preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions, a group of friends look back on their childhood. Their dreams circle their old classmate […]

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. It 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. Our narrator is a child when she first sees this man’s […]