If I Close My Eyes Now
Se Eu Fechar os Olhos Agora
Edney Silvestre (born 1950)
Translated by Nick Caistor
English editions
In EnglishIf I Close My Eyes Now
Doubleday · United Kingdom · 2013 · 318 pages
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The day Gagarin circles the Earth, Paulo and Eduardo, twelve, sons of a railway worker and a butcher, find a murdered woman by a pond. Grilled roughly by the police, they are let go once the dead woman's husband, a timid dentist, owns up. The boys cannot believe such a weak man was capable of it, and with an elderly resident of the town's home for the aged, once jailed by Vargas, they look into it themselves. What they find is sexual violence, racism, graft and the cynicism of the old landowning bosses who still run the place.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 301 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime, Coming of age, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Brazil, 1961
- First published
- 2009 by Record
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9788501088109 (original)
9780857521323 (Doubleday, United Kingdom)