ralentina reviewed Space Invaders by Nona Fernández
…there’s no way to agree, because in dreams, as in memory, there is no agreement, nor should there be.
4 stars
A choral novella - a group of children from Santiago remembering, or maybe dreaming, the early 1980s. The narration is disjointed, I think to evoke the haziness and logic of dreams: friendships, crushes, school ceremonies, games of touching and kissing each other, patriotic school plays, forays into politics. People are being disappeared, tortured, killed - and the victims as the oppressors are all around, parents, colleagues, brothers. Bordering on the too obscure, but being so short it works, and it is evocative, the thrills of growing up, the horror of the dictatorship, folded into one.