If I Close My Eyes Now

Edney Silvestre · 2009 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

In a small Brazilian town in 1961, two boys find the body of a murdered woman by a lake and are drawn into what the adults want hidden. The crime opens onto the town's secrets, shortly before the military coup changes the country. A debut that won the Premio Jabuti, it is the lightest of the Jabuti novels of the decade.

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