If I Close My Eyes Now
$12.22
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2014
Summary
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
“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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552778855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552778850 |
| Author: | Edney Silvestre, Nick Caistor |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“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.”
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 *
Edney Silvestre’s plot is agile and engrossing, replete with references to Brazil and the world’s cultural and political moment. * Estado de Minas *
A minutely detailed examination of the political, social and psychological connotations of a murder. * Veja *
In his first novel, Silvestre combines lyricism with historical documentation. * Cult Magazine *
About The Author
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.
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