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Our Beautiful Darkness
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Our Beautiful Darkness
£11.77
£11.77/each
Description
A 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-LachmannA Kirkus Best YA Book of 2024 Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025Selected for the shortlist for the 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book PrizeA Five Books Best New Book for Teens of 2024 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. 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.
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| Author | Ondjaki Goncalves |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781592704101 |
| Item Height | 1.8 |
| Item Length | 22.3 |
| Item Width | 15.3 |
| Publisher | Abrams |
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