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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, was his first novel. His second novel, HAPPINESS IS EASY, is out now in Doubleday hardback and ebook
Praise for IF I CLOSE MY EYES NOW: A whodunnit and a coming-of-age set in a small town in Brazil ... remarkable Financial Times Silvestre's real subject is Brazil, a country capable of advancing fifity years in only five of full democracy as it lurches out of the developing world Guardian 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 Tablet A novel notable for its deftly evoked cast and expert knowledge of Brazilian society, from favela alleyways to the corridors of power Daily Mail
