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If I Close My Eyes Now
Edney Silvestre
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Description for If I Close My Eyes Now
Paperback. If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her blood on my fingers. If only I had closed my eyes then, or kept my mouth shut, not told anyone about our discovery by the swimming hole, we could have gone back to dreaming about spaceships. A horrifying discovery by two young boys while playing in a mango plantation marks the end of their childhood. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her blood on my fingers. If only I had closed my eyes then, or kept my mouth shut, not told anyone about our discovery by the swimming hole, we could have gone back to dreaming about spaceships.
A horrifying discovery by two young boys while playing in a mango plantation marks the end of their childhood. As they finally open their eyes to the adult world, they see a place where storybook heroes don't exist but villains and lies do ...
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552778855
SKU
V9780552778855
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-31
About Edney Silvestre
Edney Silvestre is a Brazilian writer and journalist whose work as a TV reporter has taken him to Iraq and to the September 11 attacks in New York. He currently presents a popular TV book programme and lives in Rio de Janeiro. IF I CLOSE MY EYES NOW, a best seller in Brazil, is his first novel. His second novel, HAPPINESS IS EASY, will soon be available in Doubleday hardback and ebook
Reviews for If I Close My Eyes Now
Deceptively simple .. evokes the special nature of childhood friendships
Daily Mail
Silvestre has fun with the murder mystery, but his real subject is Brazil, "a country capable of advancing 50 years in only five of full democracy", as it lurches out of the developing world
Guardian
A whodunnit and coming-of-age set in small-town Brazil ...a remarkable debut
Financial Times
Affirms that crime fiction is to the twenty-first century what the grand social novel was to the nineteenth. Sadistic sexual politics, investigated by an unlikely trio of sleuths (two schoolboys and an elderly man); misogynistic murder, syncretic Christianity; municipal shenanigans, all fester beneath the raging Rio sun
The Tablet
‘Edney Silvestre makes innocence and reality collide … in a look at the history of Brazil as the scene of crime and perversion’ Folha de S. Paulo
Folha de S. Paulo
Daily Mail
Silvestre has fun with the murder mystery, but his real subject is Brazil, "a country capable of advancing 50 years in only five of full democracy", as it lurches out of the developing world
Guardian
A whodunnit and coming-of-age set in small-town Brazil ...a remarkable debut
Financial Times
Affirms that crime fiction is to the twenty-first century what the grand social novel was to the nineteenth. Sadistic sexual politics, investigated by an unlikely trio of sleuths (two schoolboys and an elderly man); misogynistic murder, syncretic Christianity; municipal shenanigans, all fester beneath the raging Rio sun
The Tablet
‘Edney Silvestre makes innocence and reality collide … in a look at the history of Brazil as the scene of crime and perversion’ Folha de S. Paulo
Folha de S. Paulo