{"product_id":"our-beautiful-darkness","title":"Our Beautiful Darkness","description":"\u003cb\u003eA blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in \u003ci\u003eOur Beautiful Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eó\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003enio Jorge Gon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eç\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ealves\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from Portuguese \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eby \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyn Miller-Lachmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a conversation filled with their stories and dreams... and maybe even a first kiss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against the backdrop of the civil war that ravaged Angola in the 1990s, this book weaves the country's history with a teenage boy's family stories. But when a power outage shrouds the neighborhood in darkness, everyday realities fade away... As the boy and a girl sit talking in the backyard, memory gives way to imagination and vulnerability, and the space between them becomes charged with emotional electricity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir resulting conversation is both a meditation on the storytelling impulse and a gripping narrative of first love that, through its particulars, ascends to the universal.","brand":"ABRAMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663823999012,"sku":"9781592704101","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9781592704101.jpg?v=1778010306","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/our-beautiful-darkness","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}