An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author ofSpace InvadersIt 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. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novelThe Twilight Zoneis a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.”