{"product_id":"our-beautiful-darkness-a-graphic-novel","title":"Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOur Beautiful Darkness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003efully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eó\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003enio Jorge Gon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eç\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ealves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTranslated from Portuguese\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eby Lyn Miller-Lachmann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKirkus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBest YA Book of 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSelected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSelected for the shortlist for the 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFive Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBest New Book for Teens of 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ondjaki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45501308403888,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/714rwZGYsIL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785848067","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/our-beautiful-darkness-a-graphic-novel","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}