Our Beautiful Darkness HC (2025 Unruly/Enchanted Lion) comic books

Add to cart Near Mint $16.95

Add to cart Near Mint $16.95

1st printing. Written by Ondjaki. Art and cover by Antonio Jorge Gonçalves. Translated by Lyn Miller-Lachmann. 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. 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. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 126 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.