{"title":"Cecilia Costa","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"julia-e-o-mago","title":"Julia and the Wizard","description":"A self-described compulsive storyteller, Cecilia Costa blends fact and fiction to weave the plot of her second novel. JULIA AND THE WIZARD features real characters from the author's life, as well as others linked to the family of writer Thomas Mann, son of Brazilian Julia. The result is a narrative that straddles journalistic objectivity and the emotion of someone who lived through situations similar to those she created for the book. After struggling with death, seeing his soul return to his own body, Antônio surrenders to the adventure of pursuing love in every moment of life and in all its inexhaustible possibilities, the most sublime and the most sordid. This is how Julia deciphers the magician, her father, and experiences the adventure of also revealing herself. She summons the courage to mine the hidden recesses of memory and confronts her encounters and findings with narratives and perceptions of the present. Everything is shifting and disturbing. The stories in JULIA AND THE WIZARD bring us memories of the most primitive joys and terrors, refusing to let us escape the mirror. They evoke the dark and stubborn powers of the Rodriguian house and make us live with the oppression, infidelities, conspiracies, sins, and, above all, the loves of every good old family worth its salt. Writing fiction helps her with self-knowledge, says Cecília, who has never left journalism aside and who doesn't fear the embarrassment of revealing herself by sharing real experiences. \"90% of literary production is a narrative of one's life. And what is life if not an artistic creation too?\" asks the author, who had barely considered the work on JULIA AND THE WIZARD finished and already has two projects ready to begin: a book on Machado de Assis and another on Maria Graham, an English writer who lived in Brazil and was a friend of Empress Leopoldina.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175452983548,"sku":"9788501082473","price":89.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3ecc937e2d3309d2145e0e90655cf947.jpg?v=1778323526"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/cecilia-costa.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}