{"product_id":"our-beautiful-darkness-a-graphic-novel-9781592704101","title":"Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eA blackout leads two teens to discover intimacy and vulnerability in Our Beautiful Darkness, a YA novella translated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann. Set against the backdrop of Angola's civil war in the 1990s, the book weaves the country's history with a teenage boy's family stories. When a power outage shrouds the neighborhood in darkness, everyday realities fade away, and the space between them becomes charged with emotional electricity. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 126 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 10 October 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Enchanted Lion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in \"Our Beautiful Darkness,\" a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonçalves. Translated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann, \"Our Beautiful Darkness\" is a Kirkus Best YA Book of 2024 and a Five Books Best New Book for Teens of 2024. 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. 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 216 x 135 x 22 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781592704101\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ondjaki","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":46743045538042,"sku":"9781592704101","price":8.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1728671729278_book.jpg?v=1728719233","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/our-beautiful-darkness-a-graphic-novel-9781592704101","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}