If I Close My Eyes Now

If I Close My Eyes Now

by EdneySilvestre (Author)

Synopsis

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 ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 19 Jun 2014

ISBN 10: 0552778850
ISBN 13: 9780552778855
Book Overview: Prize-winning murder mystery novel in which two boy detectives solve a crime in 1960s Brazil - reminiscent of Niccolo Ammaniti's I'M NOT SCARED, STAND BY ME and TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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