{"product_id":"our-beautiful-darkness","title":"Our Beautiful Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003e Translated from Portuguese\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eby\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eLyn Miller-Lachmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The 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\u003e Set 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\u003e Their 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Our Beautiful Darkness","offer_id":45026992488645,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-59270-410-1.jpg?v=1755666880","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/our-beautiful-darkness","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}