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Critical Response Section Draft (for Space Invaders (book))
This book is praised for the combination of short chapters with multi-voiced narration to invoke an unsettled feeling. This unsettled feeling paired with the use of unreliable dreams and memories is what reviewers feel gives reader the same feeling people living under a repressive regime might have experienced. One reviewer feels that the books lack of overdramatization of brutal events is what contributes to its eerie feeling. The book is also praised for its use of the video game Space Invaders as a way to relate the events more readily to readers. It has been said that the book creates the same addictive attention that the the video game did .The translation of this book, done by Natasha Wimmer, is praised because it keeps the tone, format, and flow of the book without changing the meaning. The book was also longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2019.