{"product_id":"our-beautiful-darkness-by-ondjaki-9781592704101","title":"Our Beautiful Darkness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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, a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonçalves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe light goes out suddenly. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 neighbourhood 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340999049452,"sku":"9781592704101","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1489563482755.jpg?v=1772179991","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/our-beautiful-darkness-by-ondjaki-9781592704101","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}