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From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio de Janeiro, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Simultaneously familiar and foreign, this sweet, sad and compulsively readable first novel throngs with visceral memory and unbreakable yet ordinary heroes.
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Ed Siegle grew up in Somerset and lives in Brighton with his wife and two children. A keen linguist, he spent several years in Spain and Latin America, living and working in Granada, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. His short story Nine Lives, One Life won the 2004 V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Invisibles spans two cities by the sea and four decades of music, torture and romance. From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Joel Burns has always believed his father is still alive. His mother Jackie has long been glad to know Gilberto is dead. When a sighting on a news report from Rio de Janeiro suggests Joel might be right, he travels to Brazil determined to find his long-lost father. Nelson, a down-and-out musician guided by the spirits of Jesus, Yemanj and his late Aunt Zila, helps Joel retrace his childhood steps - and face up to the contrast between his rosy memories of Gilberto and his mother's accounts of the man's cruelty and the violent times following his arrest and imprisonment by the military authorities. At once familiar and foreign, this sweet, sad and compulsively readable first novel by Ed Siegle throngs with visceral memory and unbreakable ordinary heroes. Seller Inventory # 00052483998
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Invisibles spans two cities by the sea and four decades of music, torture and romance. From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil and the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love and loss. Joel Burns has always believed his father is still alive. His mother Jackie has long been glad to know Gilberto is dead. When a sighting on a news report from Rio de Janeiro suggests Joel might be right, he travels to Brazil determined to find his long-lost father. Nelson, a down-and-out musician guided by the spirits of Jesus, Yemanj and his late Aunt Zila, helps Joel retrace his childhood steps - and face up to the contrast between his rosy memories of Gilberto and his mother's accounts of the man's cruelty and the violent times following his arrest and imprisonment by the military authorities. At once familiar and foreign, this sweet, sad and compulsively readable first novel by Ed Siegle throngs with visceral memory and unbreakable ordinary heroes. Seller Inventory # CIN0956559913G
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