I absolutely loved this book, and was pleasantly surprised by how effective it was on audio. I was hesitant at first because I knew it jumped around in time, included POVs from different characters and article/film extracts, but it was an incredible experience. The author makes use of a lot of repetition and I thought that was conveyed brilliantly in the narration by Raquel Beattie - it was hypnotic!

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It’s brutal, a depiction of Chile under Pinochet’s dictatorship, centred around ‘the man who tortured people’ as he is referred to throughout the novel. The narrator is a writer & documentarian intent on piecing together the life & sinister work of the former member of the secret police. She fuses history, pop culture references (notably the TV show the Twilight Zone), and her own imagination to create a haunting picture of the crimes and violence that was rife in Chile under Pinochet, how it seeped into everyday life. Mesmerising!