{"product_id":"half-love-metade-amor-9781737278009","title":"Half Love, Metade Amor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bilingual poetry book in English and Portuguese that is also a portal that divides two worlds: the U.S. and Brazil\u003c\/strong\u003e, leaving brain and heart halved: half English, half Portuguese, half love, half life. But it's also an opportunity to live life fully, in double. Expectations of what was thought of as bad-planned adventures are kept safe. Dreams, love stories gone wrong, and pondering about life and death fill up \u003cstrong\u003ewords that try to flip the narrative creating a third language that tries to accommodate this new place.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside its pages, you'll find a decade of an immigrant broken down into \u003cstrong\u003esix chapters that talk about life, love, loss, and morals\u003c\/strong\u003e. Each chapter alternates between poems written in Portuguese translated to English, and poems written in English translated to Portuguese. They take readers through a \u003cstrong\u003ejourney\u003c\/strong\u003e where the author survives a \"voluntary exile\" leaving the doors of new possibilities open. And hope is always good news, right?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of a \u003cstrong\u003ebilingual life\u003c\/strong\u003e, everything happens in a \u003cstrong\u003esimultaneous translation of cultures, feelings, and voices\u003c\/strong\u003e as if the words are melting themselves in a pot. The translations made by the author herself are a tentative of putting together cultural pieces of the collective consciousness of \u003cstrong\u003eLatin-Americans\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the well-known North-American individuality, adjusting the volumes of two languages just so the button in the middle is no longer the silence of interrupted noises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana Silvani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Webook Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737278009","brand":"Webook Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42879830392969,"sku":"9781737278009","price":22.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c5764ac1-4ae0-4dc7-9a6c-373fa9be00ef.jpg?v=1722932575","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/half-love-metade-amor-9781737278009","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}