If I Close My Eyes Now

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Description

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 …

Additional information

Weight 0.229 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.7 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

320

Publisher

Year Published

2014-6-19

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0552778850

About The Author

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

Deceptively simple .. evokes the special nature of childhood friendships

Other text

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

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