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In such an original, sincere, and engaging way that we become accomplices too.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159887855868,"sku":"9788501107466","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f6a6c306ffb1c8c6f3dfc63c28625b03.jpg?v=1778325456"},{"product_id":"se-eu-fechar-os-olhos-agora","title":"If I close my eyes now","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNovel that originated the TV Globo miniseries, in an edition\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ewith a new cover and an unpublished preface by Ricardo Linhares.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \" \u003cem\u003eIf I Close My Eyes Now\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" we are introduced to Paulo and Eduardo, two 12-year-old boys who find the mutilated corpse of a beautiful woman on the shore of a lake in a quiet town in the interior of Rio de Janeiro state in the 1960s. The friends go to the police to report the incident and, after an aggressive interrogation, become suspects, but are released when the victim's husband confesses to the crime. However, the brutality of the murder, the police's indifference, and the illogicality of the official explanation leave them intrigued, leading them to try to uncover for themselves what really lies behind the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e With the help of a mysterious old man, a former political prisoner of the Vargas dictatorship, the boys' investigation will uncover a perverse scenario in which sexual violence, racism, corruption and spurious political alliances mix in an electrifying and moving plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe novel gave rise to the eponymous TV Globo miniseries, written by Ricardo Linhares and starring Antonio Fagundes as Ubiratan, the idealistic teacher who joins the boys Paulo (João Gabriel D'Aleluia) and Eduardo (Xande Valois) to try to solve the barbaric murder of Anita (Thainá Duarte).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 2010, the book won Edney Silvestre the Jabuti Award for best novel and the São Paulo Literature Award for best book by a debut author. \" \u003cem\u003eIf I Close My Eyes Now\u003c\/em\u003e \" addresses current and pressing issues such as racism, homophobia, femicide, and violence against women, against the backdrop of white patriarchal oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174832554236,"sku":"9788501116055","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/177f5c2109ddb301791768b3d2ca3b18_b8696221-7eb2-430e-b3a9-6b059eb02a91.jpg?v=1778315826"},{"product_id":"outros-tempos","title":"Other times","description":"\"Outros Tempos\" is a collection of chronicles and memoirs by journalist Edney Silvestre, revealing his experiences as an international correspondent on assignments in the Middle East and Cuba. The book focuses primarily on daily life in New York, where he lived for over a decade. Of the 28 chronicles in this book, 19 were published in O Globo, the rest are previously unpublished. Edney's decision to publish the book was a way to say goodbye to the city—the journalist returned to Rede Globo's headquarters in Brazil this year—and to vent. This is cathartic after September 11th. But \"Outros Tempos\" isn't just about sadness and anger; many of the chronicles are lighthearted and humorous. Throughout the book, Edney reveals to the reader amusing insights into Yankee self-centeredness and the tortuous paths that shaped some of New York's great fortunes. In the first column, which gives the book its title, the journalist writes an emotional essay about the days following the terrorist attack, its aftermath, the behind-the-scenes coverage of Globo's coverage—in short, the transformation of a city and thousands of everyday lives. The days of tranquility and security remain forever in the memories of New Yorkers. On the morning of September 11, 2001, the seemingly impregnable city ceased to be, for an indefinite period, the New York of dreams, the promised land of the world's uprooted. When he arrived there in the early 1990s, Edney witnessed the decadence that plagued the metropolis, permeated by violence and drug trafficking. But he also experienced its rebirth beginning in 1994, with the zero-tolerance system established by Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It is this time of splendor and optimism that the journalist addresses in most of the columns collected in the book. Edney plays with the memories of those who knew the Big Apple at its peak, transporting us back to the fond memories of an unforgettable New York. Like a film that begins at the end, Outros tempos begins with the rubble of the World Trade Center and moves forward, with flashbacks that take the reader on a journey through time and space.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174975160572,"sku":"9788501064332","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/194c5e9fe04e9d94130f45df08f496e3_7765f267-905a-4394-8013-35c47a7a6aeb.jpg?v=1781927981"},{"product_id":"a-felicidade-e-facil","title":"Happiness is easy","description":"One of the greatest challenges for an author is releasing a new book after a resounding first success. Huge expectations are created, and this pressure can inhibit the writer. Edney Silvestre faced this problem: *Se eu fecha os olhos agora* won important literary awards and sparked interest in the foreign market. Undeterred by these circumstantial issues, Silvestre worked on a new narrative, the one we have in our hands. *A felicidade é facil* proves that Silvestre has come to occupy a prominent place in Brazilian literary circles. With ingenuity, he subverts the winning form of his first novel, in which the macro-history (the turbulent period before the military dictatorship) served as a backdrop to a tale of violence and domination. In this new book, personal destinies are inextricably linked to the macro-history, the Collor administration. The author bridges the two ends of Brazil's recent history: if in \"If I Close My Eyes Now\" there was still a certain innocence, through the eyes of children, in \"Happiness Is Easy\" we enter an era of cynicism, shamelessness, and every man for himself. Technically, Silvestre teaches us a lesson: with some elements typical of detective fiction, he creates a political novel, a difficult and largely unexplored genre in Brazil. Everything unfolds, in alternating chapters, in less than 24 hours, starting at the scene of a kidnapping. We meet Olavo and Ernesto, advertising executives involved in high-level corruption within the federal government; Mara, a former escort for executives; Irene and her husband, along with their son, who are domestic servants; Major, a private driver, and his daughter, Bárbara; and the members of an international gang of kidnappers. It's impressive how Silvestre penetrates the distinct worlds of each of these characters. The narrator navigates with ease through the consumerist tastes of Olavo and Mara, the intricacies of Brazil's money draining abroad, the world of desire and frustration of the Irene-Stephan couple and the Major and his daughter, and even the language and mannerisms of high-ranking delinquents. Ultimately, amidst the mud that seems to invade everything, Silvestre finds hope. As in Drummond's poem, in which a flower pierces \"the asphalt, the boredom, the disgust, and the hatred.\" Sublime.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175688356092,"sku":"9788501094995","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/1924195da7b438b0d40b3e05cf173a25.jpg?v=1779765798"},{"product_id":"boa-noite-a-todos","title":"Good evening everyone","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the award-winning If I Close My Eyes Now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e Maggie, the protagonist of the novel and play that make up \u003ci\u003eGood Night Everyone\u003c\/i\u003e , is one of those characters who come to life from the pages of the book. Living with her drama—that of a woman whose memory is rapidly fading—is a profound and moving lesson about the human soul. In Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, Maggie experienced the freedom that the years of oppression had stymied in Brazil at the time. This freedom, however, had the downside of the lack of solid ground to which to anchor herself. Marked by the fate of expatriates, she now faces the loss of what little identity she has left: the memory of the joys and misfortunes of an intense existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood evening everyone\u003c\/i\u003e represents another level in the literary edifice in which Silvestre shelters and situates the generation that was formed under the great political and social transformations of the second half of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176323301628,"sku":"9788501041753","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/7876ad453937caab031bdce4d6101e4d.jpg?v=1778326528"},{"product_id":"se-eu-fechar-os-olhos-agora-1","title":"If I close my eyes now","description":"With refined language, journalist and writer Edney Silvestre crudely exposes human evil, and is capable of immensely sensitive psychological insights, contextualizing his characters socially and historically.\n\n With the experienced eye and sensitivity of someone who has covered some of the most significant events in recent world history – from the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York to Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Cuba, including a series of reports on Iraq before the overthrow of Saddam Hussein – the author combines lyricism and historical record in If I Close My Eyes Now, narrating the investigation of a brutal crime during one of the most important periods in Brazilian history. \nIn April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to travel into space, left Earth's orbit, opening up a universe of possibilities for humanity and a technological victory in a century that seemed to be heading toward an era of relative peace, progress, and social justice. That same day, in a small town in the former coffee district of Rio de Janeiro, two 12-year-old boys—from the lower middle class, one the son of a railway worker, the other a butcher—find the mutilated body of a beautiful woman on the shore of a lake where they are going to play hooky. Frightened, the boys immediately call the police and undergo a harsh interrogation, during which they are treated more as suspects than witnesses.  \nThe brutality of the murder and the utter disregard for humankind shock the boys, who refuse to accept the official explanation, which claims the culprit is the husband, the town's frail dentist, driven by jealousy. They begin an investigation, aided by a man living in the town's nursing home, a former political prisoner of the Vargas dictatorship, who conceals the motivation for his interest in the matter. From him, the boys hear a warning that marks the beginning of a whirlwind of surprising events: \"Nothing in this country is what it seems.\" \nSoon, they realize that the woman has a strange connection with the city's most important men and that her past is clouded with lies. The investigation will also uncover a perverse landscape in which sexual violence, racism, corruption, and spurious political alliances—those trying to maintain power at any cost—intertwine, at a time when Brazil is moving toward industrialization. For the boys, it will be a terrifying journey of maturation and adulthood, still in their early teens.\n In his literary debut, Edney Silvestre constructs an electrifying and moving plot, full of references to one of the most important moments in the political and cultural scene of Brazil and the world. Transiting through genres as distinct as the detective novel, the historical novel and the coming-of-age novel, If I Close My Eyes Now, which took six years to complete, is a dizzying read that portrays the essence of our society.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176803320060,"sku":"9788501088109","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9d9205c2066caf73bf07709d0847e5b0_4d753914-dfa2-47d9-ab01-91e975c06b28.jpg?v=1776894683"},{"product_id":"o-ultimo-dia-da-inocencia","title":"The last day of innocence","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e Set entirely on March 13, 1964, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Day of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e blends real-life situations and characters with fictional creations. Amid the tensions of João Goulart's rally at Central do Brasil, a naive young man, indifferent to the political conspiracies swirling around him, witnesses a murder and becomes the prime suspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The protagonist is a Brazilian orphan—a survivor of another crime—who dreams of being a journalist and searches for the big story to report. He doesn't suspect that the story will emerge in the form of his own plot, where no coincidence is truly destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAs army troops, conspirators, and protesters gather in downtown Rio de Janeiro, the young man, who has no memory of committing the crime, desperately searches across the city for someone who can help exonerate him. Every minute counts. And with each passing hour, he discovers that other secret crimes—in which he and his family were implicated—have been committed over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe exquisite reconstruction of Brazil's political landscape plays a decisive role in the plot's outcome. The recreation of Rio de Janeiro is also exquisite. In this masterpiece of reconstructing an affective topography, the result of meticulous research, Edney Silvestre presents us with yet another demonstration of his talent in a moving book. Weaving together a first-rate fiction, revealing characters destined to remain in the reader's memory, the author is ruthless in his manipulation of memory. With fluid characters, easily identifiable bodies, and figures who hold the key to amorality, including sexuality, \u003cem\u003e*The Last Day of Innocence*\u003c\/em\u003e is an irresistible novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176889368828,"sku":"9788501117205","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e11a3d8092cf5fc43cbb3350b4983d26_f3f7680c-2d23-430c-b07d-9ffedad84d30.jpg?v=1778320520"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/edney-silvestre.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}