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The Twilight Zone: A Novel

by Nona Fernández, translated by Natasha Wimmer

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The Twilight Zone: A Novel by Nona Fernández, translated by Natasha Wimmer appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather short, fiction, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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