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Invisibles

By: Ed Siegle

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Paperback | 17 March 2011

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288 Pages

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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, Yemanjá 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.

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KATHRYN HEYMAN: 'Ed Siegle's moving and dynamic tale of loss and discovery is a meditation on being seen, and being unseen. Full of surprises, crackling with energy, and with characters bristling with life, Invisibles pulled me along from the first page and didn't set me down until the last.' KATE LYRA: 'In this riveting story, Ed Siegle does a tremendous job of transposing us to Rio de Janeiro, juxtaposing Brighton and Brazil, past and present. The dark and light sides of Brazil are brought to life - like bitter-sweet caipirinhas and lilting samba - under EdA s command of time and place.'

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